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bust·er

 (bŭs′tər)
n.
1. One that breaks up something: a crime buster.
2. A broncobuster.
3. A particularly robust child.
4. A baby buster.
5. Informal Fellow. Used in addressing a man or boy, especially out of annoyance: Watch where you're going, buster!
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buster

(ˈbʌstə)
n
1. (in combination) a person or thing destroying something as specified: dambuster.
2. US and Canadian a term of address for a boy or man
3. (Professions) US and Canadian a person who breaks horses
4. chiefly US and Canadian a spree, esp a drinking bout
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bust•er

(ˈbʌs tər)

n. Informal.
1. a person who breaks up something: crime busters.
2. something very big or unusual for its kind.
3. (cap.) (used, often insolently, as a familiar term of address to a man or boy): Watch it, Buster!
4. a spree.
[1825–35, Amer.]
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Buster

1001 Words and Phrases You Never Knew You Didn’t Know by W.R. Runyan Copyright © 2011 by W.R. Runyan
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.buster - an informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?"
adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
2.buster - a robust child
child, kid, minor, nipper, tiddler, youngster, tike, shaver, small fry, nestling, fry, tyke - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
3.Buster - a person who breaks horsesbuster - a person who breaks horses    
equestrian, horseback rider, horseman - a man skilled in equitation
4.buster - a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; "crime buster"
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
5.buster - a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
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Translations

buster

[ˈbʌstəʳ] N (in direct address) → macho m (Sp) , tío m (Sp)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

buster

n (esp US inf, as address) → Meister m (inf); (threatening) → Freundchen nt (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

buster

[ˈbʌstəʳ] n come here, buster!ehi tu, vieni qui!
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
The tears were all gone, however, and she was watching the hill and island answer each other with what Jamie called "whizzers, whirligigs and busters," and smiling as she thought how hard the boys must be working to keep up such a steady fire, when Uncle Mac came walking in upon her, saying hurriedly
The liquor mounted in the heads of all of us, and the talk of Scotty and the harpooner was upon running the Easting down, gales off the Horn and pamperos off the Plate, lower topsail breezes, southerly busters, North Pacific gales, and of smashed whaleboats in the Arctic ice.
You know Jeremiah's contrairy horse, Buster? He won't let anybody put the bit into his mouth if he can help it.
Z.)--From 1st prox.: extreme southerly light(double red) will exhibit white beam inclined 45 degrees on approach of Southerly Buster. Traffic flies high off this coast between April and October.
Harrison concedes, is `a buster of a good thing'--even if you do know that probably half a dozen interested people are listening along the line."
But as he isn't here I want to know, as one pal to another, what you've been doing to an old buster of the name of Nutcombe.'
Mas'r George, however, joined the offender in the laugh, and declared decidedly that Mose was a "buster." So the maternal admonition seemed rather to fail of effect.
At such times as when your sister is on the Ram-page, Pip," Joe sank his voice to a whisper and glanced at the door, "candour compels fur to admit that she is a Buster."
I knew a boy who, from his peculiar energy, was called "Buster" by his playmates, and this rightly supplanted his Christian name.
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And to hear him tell it, James "Buster" Corley should have failed in his efforts to grow Buster's Bar & Restaurant in Little Rock into what's now Dave & Busters, a publicly traded restaurant and entertainment chain that last year reported revenue of $746.8 million.
THE Centre has provided the National Security Guard ( NSG) five ' door busters', which will help commandos blast open locked doors during rescue operations.