buster

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noun

Plural noun:

busters

1.
(colloquial)(chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
2.
(slang)(chiefly military slang) Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
3.
(chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
4.
(dated, slang)Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.
5.
(obsolete, slang)A loaf of bread.
6.
(obsolete, slang)A drinking spree, a binge.
7.
(dated, slang)A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.
8.
(Australia, New Zealand)(Australia and New Zealand) A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
9.
(US, regional)A molting crab.
In that state he is called a ‘Buster’, bursting his shell.
10.
(slang)(gambling, slang) A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.

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Originally a dialectal variant of burster; later influenced by bust + --er.