Bankrupt, broke

Množina: busts

ETYM French buste, from Italian busto; cf. Late Lat. busta, bustula, box, of the same origin as Eng. box a case; cf., for the change of meaning, Eng. chest. Related to Bushel.
1. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person.
2. An occasion for heavy drinking; SYN. tear, bender, binge, toot, booze-up.

1 To break or smash especially with force; also; to make inoperative
2. To bring an end to; break up — often used with up
3. To ruin financially; exhaust, wear out — used in phrases like bust one's butt to describe making a strenuous effort; to give a hard time to — often used in phrases like bust one's chops
4. To tame
5. Demote
6. Hit, slug
7. To go broke
8. To burst; break down
9. To lose at cards by exceeding a limit (as the count of 21 in blackjack)
10. To fail to complete a straight or flush in poker

To smash or break forcefully; SYN. wreck, wrack.

Množina: bust-ups

A serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship).

Množina: bust-up takeovers

A leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover.

(William) (born Clarke) (1884-1977) Jamaican politician. As leader of the Labour Party, he was the first prime minister of independent Jamaica 1962–67.

Antonio Sánchez 1865-1951 Cuban jurist

Množina: bustards

ETYM Old Fren. and Prov. French bistarde, French outarde, from Latin avis tarda, lit., slow bird.
Large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes.
Large cranelike bird of Europe; American and Canadian, the Canada goose. great bustard, largest European land bird.
Bird of the family Otididae, related to cranes but with a rounder body, a thicker neck, and a relatively short beak. Bustards are found on the ground on open plains and fields.
The great bustard Otis tarda is one of the heaviest flying birds at 18 kg/40 lb, and the larger males may have a length of 1 m/3 ft and wingspan of 2.3 m/7.5 ft. It is found in N Asia and Europe, although there are fewer than 30,000 great bustards left in Europe and two-thirds of these live on the Spanish steppes.

(Used informally especially of bones) Fractured.

Množina: bustees

Alternative spelling of basti, an Indian name for a shanty town.