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Definition of gangbuster in English: gangbusternoun ˈɡaŋbʌstəˈɡæŋˌbəstər North American informal 1An officer of a law-enforcement agency who takes part in breaking up criminal gangs. Example sentencesExamples - For 25 years, he has been a gangbuster for the United States attorney in Chicago, a workhorse prosecutor who put away dozens of organized crime figures with piercing arguments, a devotion to justice and a gentlemanly style.
- She tries not to come in like a whirlwind or gangbusters and turn things upside down.
- His record as a terror fighter is about as dismal as his record as a gangbuster is laudable.
2as modifier Very successful. the restaurant did gangbuster business Example sentencesExamples - Suddenly, without my realizing it, my pen begins to skim over paper at a gangbuster pace.
- Although they went into the show inexperienced, he said, ‘We had a gangbuster show.’
- That's not gangbusters, but it has been good enough to raise labor compensation by 4 1/2% in the past year.
- The first half of 2000 had gangbuster growth, leading many media organizations to have false hopes and expectations for the full year.
- Tech and telecom fund losses - despite a gangbuster rally since Apr. 4-are ugly.
- In the financial press the gangbuster talk is of a powerhouse economy and a buoyant and robust outlook.
- Profits aren't likely to keep growing at the gangbuster pace of recent quarters, but the conditions are right for continued expansion.
- That risks turning what would have been a gangbuster expansion into a more modest one.
- After gangbuster 9.9% growth in this year's first quarter, the economy is slowing.
- Although he is struggling with Anaheim, they are having gangbuster seasons.
- After a brief period where the Fetish Café became the Fetish Funhouse and where ‘things just weren't quite right,’ the club has recently returned to its old formula and is, once again, doing gangbuster business.
- Is that healthy, to be growing risk assets at a gangbuster rate while returns on those assets are diminishing?
- For the industry, the bright spot has been gangbuster growth in online advertising revenue, up 40 to 60 percent at nearly every company.
- The result of this explosion in DVD player affordability and portability is gangbuster sales for Dora DVDs - they're up 80 percent over the last year.
Phrases Used to refer to great vigour, speed, or success. the real estate market was going gangbusters Example sentencesExamples - Upmarket outfitter Abercrombie & Fitch is going gangbusters across the US with its surf-themed Hollister stores.
- Yes, 1999 was a good year and we're going like gangbusters right now.
- ‘It's going gangbusters,’ said Dr. Dale Wallis.
- The last time I talked to her, she complained that while her career was going gangbusters, she was striking out in the love department.
- Naturally, this has his mother's matchmaking radar going like gangbusters.
- General Motors is going gangbusters thanks to trucks and zero-percent financing; its October selling rate is near an 18-million-unit annualized rate.
- Some newly listed companies are going gangbusters, however.
- On a competition level, it went gangbusters: the VTR-SP1 and SP2 won two out of the three SBK titles it contested, before Honda pulled the plug at the end of 2002 to focus on MotoGP.
- All of a sudden jobs are miraculously going like gangbusters.
- With the economy going gangbusters, the unprecedented past two years of massive job losses in the face of rising economic growth is probably at an end.
Definition of gangbuster in US English: gangbusternounˈɡaNGˌbəstərˈɡæŋˌbəstər North American informal 1A police officer or other person who takes part in breaking up criminal gangs. Example sentencesExamples - She tries not to come in like a whirlwind or gangbusters and turn things upside down.
- For 25 years, he has been a gangbuster for the United States attorney in Chicago, a workhorse prosecutor who put away dozens of organized crime figures with piercing arguments, a devotion to justice and a gentlemanly style.
- His record as a terror fighter is about as dismal as his record as a gangbuster is laudable.
- 1.1as modifier Very successful, especially commercially.
the restaurant did a gangbuster business Example sentencesExamples - Although they went into the show inexperienced, he said, ‘We had a gangbuster show.’
- Suddenly, without my realizing it, my pen begins to skim over paper at a gangbuster pace.
- After a brief period where the Fetish Café became the Fetish Funhouse and where ‘things just weren't quite right,’ the club has recently returned to its old formula and is, once again, doing gangbuster business.
- In the financial press the gangbuster talk is of a powerhouse economy and a buoyant and robust outlook.
- The first half of 2000 had gangbuster growth, leading many media organizations to have false hopes and expectations for the full year.
- That's not gangbusters, but it has been good enough to raise labor compensation by 4 1/2% in the past year.
- Although he is struggling with Anaheim, they are having gangbuster seasons.
- Tech and telecom fund losses - despite a gangbuster rally since Apr. 4-are ugly.
- That risks turning what would have been a gangbuster expansion into a more modest one.
- The result of this explosion in DVD player affordability and portability is gangbuster sales for Dora DVDs - they're up 80 percent over the last year.
- After gangbuster 9.9% growth in this year's first quarter, the economy is slowing.
- For the industry, the bright spot has been gangbuster growth in online advertising revenue, up 40 to 60 percent at nearly every company.
- Is that healthy, to be growing risk assets at a gangbuster rate while returns on those assets are diminishing?
- Profits aren't likely to keep growing at the gangbuster pace of recent quarters, but the conditions are right for continued expansion.
Phrases Used to refer to great vigor, speed, or success. the real estate market was going gangbusters it's growing like gangbusters Example sentencesExamples - ‘It's going gangbusters,’ said Dr. Dale Wallis.
- All of a sudden jobs are miraculously going like gangbusters.
- Yes, 1999 was a good year and we're going like gangbusters right now.
- General Motors is going gangbusters thanks to trucks and zero-percent financing; its October selling rate is near an 18-million-unit annualized rate.
- Some newly listed companies are going gangbusters, however.
- Naturally, this has his mother's matchmaking radar going like gangbusters.
- The last time I talked to her, she complained that while her career was going gangbusters, she was striking out in the love department.
- Upmarket outfitter Abercrombie & Fitch is going gangbusters across the US with its surf-themed Hollister stores.
- On a competition level, it went gangbusters: the VTR-SP1 and SP2 won two out of the three SBK titles it contested, before Honda pulled the plug at the end of 2002 to focus on MotoGP.
- With the economy going gangbusters, the unprecedented past two years of massive job losses in the face of rising economic growth is probably at an end.
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