- #BUSTER MEANING MOVIE#
- #BUSTER MEANING PROFESSIONAL#
#BUSTER MEANING PROFESSIONAL#
Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.
1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling (page 283). ( gambling, slang ) A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled. serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters. In that state he is called a ‘ Buster’, bursting his shell. Hambleton's Biographical Sketch of Henry A. came down ‘a buster’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself. 1874 April, Baily's Monthly Magazine, 114:ĭainty. ( Australia and New Zealand ) A heavy fall ( also performing arts ) a staged fall, a pratfall. The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot Simoom. They were on a buster, and were taken up by the police. 1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms:. ( obsolete, slang ) A drinking spree, a binge. goes by the name of ‘ buster’, I suppose on account of the way they blow you out. 1904 June 8, Journal of the Department of Labour (New Zealand), 536:Īn 8 oz. Three penny busters, and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard. ( colloquial, variously expressing familiarity, admiration, or hostility ) A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be. ‘I had to clean this old roarer,’ continued the ‘editor’. ( dated, slang ) Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc. New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters. Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand. ( chiefly law enforcement slang ) Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element. Some busters caught their horses for the first time over the head, and snubbed or choked them until they fell gasping. 
The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber. ( US, in particular, dated, slang ) A broncobuster.( chiefly colloquial, with 'of' ) Someone who or something that ' breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not. German ‘ balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage. ( chiefly military slang ) Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.by the papers as the buster of the bandit ring. Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds a destruction of toyle? ( chiefly colloquial, with 'of' ) Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
#BUSTER MEANING MOVIE#
The combining form of the term has appeared from the early 20th century but been especially prolific during three periods: in the 1930s, owing to the success of the radio series Gang Busters in the 1940s, owing to its appearance as military slang and in the 1980s, owing to the success of the movie Ghostbusters. Originally a dialectal variant of burster later influenced by bust + -er.
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