buster
Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thingSomeone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
» Buster Keaton was one Hollywood’s greatest silent comics.
Значение
значений: 12(разговорное)Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something
(сленг)Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
(США, разговорное, устаревшее, сленг)A broncobuster.
Brecher, Aufbrecher, Knacker
(разговорное, сленг)Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.
(устаревшее, сленг)Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.
Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.
(разговорное, устаревшее, сленг)A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)
Freundchen, Kerlchen, Junge
па́реньpárenʹ, другdrug, неуда́чникneudáčnik
(устаревшее, сленг)A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.
(Австралия, Новая Зеландия)A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
(США, региональное)A molting crab.
(сленг)A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.
(устаревшее, сленг)A loaf of bread.
(устаревшее, сленг)A drinking spree, a binge.
Примеры
предложений: 3Buster Keaton was one Hollywood’s greatest silent comics.
Buster Keaton was one of Hollywood’s greatest silent comics.
deBuster Keaton war einer der größten Stummfilmkomiker Hollywoods. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe is a old sci-fi show featuring the planet Mongo with its Emperor Ming the Merciless.
Переводы
языков: 5По значениям 2
По значениям 3
Происхождение
Originally a dialectal variant of burster; later influenced by bust + -er.Originally a dialectal variant of burster; later influenced by bust + -er.
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Формы
мн. число: bustersСинонимы
синонимов: 5- a person who breaks horses:bronco busterbroncobuster
- a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically:baby buster
- an informal form of address for a man:fellowdude