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Is bust a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bust is a Scrabble US word. The word bust is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is bust a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bust is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (4 found)

BUST,BUTS,STUB,TUBS,

3-letter words (5 found)

BUS,BUT,SUB,TUB,UTS,

2-letter words (3 found)

ST,US,UT,

You can make 12 words from bust according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bust

bust ubst bsut sbut usbt subt buts ubts btus tbus utbs tubs bstu sbtu btsu tbsu stbu tsbu ustb sutb utsb tusb stub tsub

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Definitions and meaning of bust

bust

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌst/
  • Rhymes: -ʌst
  • Homophones: bussed, bused

Etymology 1

From Middle English busten, a variant of Middle English bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare German Low German basten and barsten (“to burst”). More at burst.

Verb

bust (third-person singular simple present busts, present participle busting, simple past and past participle busted or bust)

  1. (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
  2. (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
  3. (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
  4. (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
  5. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
  6. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
    • 1962, The Manchurian Candidate, 01:56:35
      If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.
  7. (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
  8. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
  9. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
  10. (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
  11. (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
  12. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
  13. (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
  14. (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
Synonyms
  • (to arrest for a crime): nick
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Noun

bust (plural busts)

  1. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
  2. (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
  3. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
  4. (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
  5. (slang) A disappointment.
  6. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
  7. (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
  8. (slang, dated) A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
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Adjective

bust (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
    After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.
Derived terms
  • bust up/bust-up
  • busted (adjective)
  • go bust

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto (“torso, upper body”), from Latin bustum (“funeral monument, tomb," originally "funeral pyre, place where corpses are burned”). Perhaps shortened from Latin ambustum, neuter of ambustus (“scorched”), past participle of ambūrō (“burn all over, scorch”), from ambi- (“around”) + ūrō (“to burn”).

Noun

bust (plural busts)

  1. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
  2. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
Derived terms
  • bust improver
  • bustlike
  • busty
  • overbust
  • underbust
Translations

Anagrams

  • BTUs, TBUs, but's, buts, stub, tubs

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian busto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbust]

Noun

bust m (plural busts or bustos)

  1. bust (sculpture)
  2. bust (breasts and upper thorax)

Further reading

  • “bust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bust

  1. inflection of bussen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French buste.

Noun

bust n (plural busturi)

  1. bust (sculpture)

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org