单词	bust
释义	verb | noun | adjective bustbust1 /bʌst/ ●●● S3 verb [transitive] informal Etymology ETYMOLOGYbust1 Origin: 1700-1800 burst Verb Table VERB TABLE bust Simple Form Present I, you, we, they bust he, she, it busts Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they busted, bust Present perfect I, you, we, they have busted, bust he, she, it has busted, bust Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had busted, bust Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will bust Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have busted, bust Continuous Form Present I am busting he, she, it is busting you, we, they are busting Past I, he, she, it was busting you, we, they were busting Present perfect I, you, we, they have been busting he, she, it has been busting Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been busting Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be busting Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been busting Collocations COLLOCATIONS► get/be busted (for something)  Her brother got busted for drunk driving. 1[intransitive, transitive] spoken to break something, or be broken:  The window busted when the ball hit it. You busted Dad’s watch!2[transitive] a)if the police bust someone, they charge him or her with a crime: get/be busted (for something) Her brother got busted for drunk driving. b)if the police bust a place, they go into it to catch people doing something illegal:  Federal agents busted several money-exchange businesses.3[transitive] to use too much money so that a business, etc. must stop operating:  The trip to Spain will probably bust our budget.4-busting used with nouns to show that a situation is being ended or an activity is being stopped:  crime-busting laws a drought-busting storm5bust a gut spoken a)to try extremely hard to do something:  We busted a gut trying to get home on time. b)to laugh a lot:  I busted a gut, watching him try to feed the baby.6bust somebody’s chops to criticize or deliberately annoy someone as a joke:  Don’t worry – I’m just busting your chops!7...or bust! used to say that you will try very hard to go somewhere or do something:  San Francisco or bust!bust out phrasal verb1 to escape from a place, especially prison2bust somebody out spoken to strongly criticize someone:  I busted him out for forgetting to pay me back.bust up phrasal verb1bust somebody/something ↔ up spoken to damage or break something, or to hit someone to injure him or her:  A bunch of bikers busted up the bar.2bust something ↔ up spoken to prevent an illegal activity or bad situation from continuing:  Last week the FBI busted up a big drug ring. A couple of teachers tried to bust up the fight.3bust something ↔ up to force a large company to separate into smaller companies:  A federal judge busted up AT&T in a decision on monopolies. → see also bust-up verb | noun | adjective bustbust2 ●○○ noun [countable] Etymology ETYMOLOGYbust2 Origin: (2, 3) 1600-1700 French buste, from Latin bustum place where a body is buried, statue put by such a place 1 informal a situation in which the police go into a place in order to catch people doing something illegal:  a drug bust2a woman’s breasts, or the measurement around her breasts and back:  a 30-inch bust3eng. lang. arts a model of someone’s head, shoulders, and upper chest, made of stone or metal: bust of a bronze bust of Beethoven [Origin: (2, 3) 1600–1700 French buste, from Latin bustum place where a body is buried, statue put by such a place] verb | noun | adjective bustbust3 adjective informal Etymology ETYMOLOGYbust3 Origin: 1900-2000 From a past participle of ➔ BUST1 go bust a business that goes bust cannot continue operating:  Most of the steel factories around here went bust in the 1980s.
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