| 单词 | drug busting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrug busting b. Forming adjectives designating a person or agency that overcomes, deals with, or eradicates something denoted by the first element, as booze busting, drug busting, etc. Cf. -buster comb. form 2.See also crime-busting adj. and n. (a) at crime n. Compounds 3, racket-busting adj. at racket n.2 Compounds 1, union-busting adj. and n. at union n.2 Compounds 3, etc. ΚΠ 1906 Muskogee (Indian Territory) Phoenix 24 May 2/1 This deputy is a rival to the other ‘booze busting’ marshals in the territory. 1990 Weekly World News 27 Nov. 47/1 ‘I adore my life as a home-maker and Vanda loves bringing home the bacon,’ says dust-busting Bruce. 1998 M. Fortun & H. J. Bernstein Muddling Through iv. 136 Two rather self-aggrandizing, ‘fraud-busting’ scientists at the National Institutes of Health. 2008 H. Campbell Drug War Zone 8 Drug-smuggling Mexicans vs. drug-busting or drug-consuming gringos. < as lemmas |
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