英语词汇“bug-buster”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. colloquial (frequently in law enforcement). Forming nouns denoting a troubleshooting or problem-solving agent or agency that overcomes, deals with, or eradicates the first element, as booze-buster, bug-buster, dust-buster, etc.See also crimebuster n. at crime n. Compounds 3, drug-buster n. at drug n.¹ Compounds 1b, gangbuster n., union buster n. at union n.² Compounds 3, etc.In later use (from 1984) often after ghostbuster n.: see the etymology.

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1872 Sci. Amer. 15 June 397/3 Cleveland has invented a patent bug buster, worked with an air pump.

1920 F. A. McKenzie ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson v. 83 Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,..fighting the demon rum.

1925 (film title) Crook buster.

1974 New Scientist 4 July 65/2 The professional fraud-busters [of the art world].

1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Nov. iv. 24/2 New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters.

1986 Verbatim Winter 4/2 Dust busters, a support group that helps women deal with housework.

1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Mar. a 16/2 The best way to clean the rails is to send a regular train—commonly referred to as the ‘rust-buster’—along them slowly.

2008 Daily Tel. 4 Aug. (Business section) b8/2 Employers hire so-called union-busters to convince staff that voting for union recognition..is not in their best interests.

单词	bug-buster
释义	> as lemmas bug-buster 2. colloquial (frequently in law enforcement). Forming nouns denoting a troubleshooting or problem-solving agent or agency that overcomes, deals with, or eradicates the first element, as booze-buster, bug-buster, dust-buster, etc.See also crimebuster n. at crime n. Compounds 3, drug-buster n. at drug n.¹ Compounds 1b, gangbuster n., union buster n. at union n.² Compounds 3, etc.In later use (from 1984) often after ghostbuster n.: see the etymology. ΚΠ 1872 Sci. Amer. 15 June 397/3 Cleveland has invented a patent bug buster, worked with an air pump. 1920 F. A. McKenzie ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson v. 83 Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,..fighting the demon rum. 1925 (film title) Crook buster. 1974 New Scientist 4 July 65/2 The professional fraud-busters [of the art world]. 1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Nov. iv. 24/2 New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters. 1986 Verbatim Winter 4/2 Dust busters, a support group that helps women deal with housework. 1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Mar. a 16/2 The best way to clean the rails is to send a regular train—commonly referred to as the ‘rust-buster’—along them slowly. 2008 Daily Tel. 4 Aug. (Business section) b8/2 Employers hire so-called union-busters to convince staff that voting for union recognition..is not in their best interests. extracted from -bustercomb. form < as lemmas
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