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单词 skull-buster
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skull-buster
1. Forming nouns denoting a person who or thing which ‘busts’ or breaks the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-buster, knuckle-buster, rate-buster, skull-buster, etc.More established compounds of this nature are treated at the first element or as separate entries: see ball-buster n., bronco-buster n., chartbuster n., price buster n. at price n. Compounds 2, etc.
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1835 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 21 July The President's encomium upon Governor Wolf is a ‘gall buster’ to the disorganisers.
1897 Gentleman Farmer Feb. 127 We need..a curculio buster, a..potato bug assassinator.
1934 Amer. Speech 9 27/2 (Glossary of prison slang) Skull-buster, a detective.
1938 Boys' Life Oct. 12 Even hundreds of years ago there were atom-busters of a sort, and they called them ‘alchemists’.
1959 Pop. Sci. Mar. 218 Installing a wire hose clamp in tight quarters needn't be a knuckle-buster.
1970 C. Bay Struct. of Freedom ii. 46 Workers who speed up production, or ‘rate busters’ as they are called.
1972 J. Campbell Myths to live By vii. 141 The..carefully programmed sequences of brain-busters.
1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 31 What did you bring to shoot? said Rawlins. Just Grandad's old thumb-buster.
2006 P. Rusesabagina & T. Zoellner Ordinary Man i. 14 The meal served is always a belly buster.
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skull-buster
skull-buster n. U.S. slang something that taxes the mind; a complicated problem.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun]
riddleOE
purposec1350
problema1382
propositiona1382
conclusion1393
divinailc1430
opposal?a1439
riddling?c1475
wordc1480
why1532
dark, hard sentence1535
enigma1539
remblere1599
puzzlement1646
gripha1652
puzzler1651
riddlemy riddlemy1652
puzzle1655
crux1718
teaser1759
puzzleation1767
conundrum1790
poser1793
riddle-me-ree1805
stumper1807
tickler1825
sticker1849
brain-teaser1850
grueller1856
question mark1870
brain-twister1878
skull-buster1926
mind-bender1968
1926 University Mag. (Univ. Va.) Oct. 17 Skull-buster, a particularly hard course.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues i. 18 Most of my skullbusters got solved at The School.
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