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Definition of Bust up
1. Verb. Smash or break forcefully. "The kid busted up the car"
Generic synonyms: Destroy, Ruin
Derivative terms: Wrack, Wreck, Wreck, Wreck, Wreckage, Wrecker, Wrecker, Wrecker, Wrecking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bust Up
Literary usage of Bust up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"... TUB " LONG " AND " SHORT " OF IT IS A GENERAL "BUST" UP IN THE " STREET" Tweed
is convicted, and no one has done more than you to bring this about. ..."
2. Over the Alleghanies and Across the Prairies: Personal Recollections of the by John Lewis Peyton (1869)
"... Kentucky—Bad roads—Blue sulphur spring —Big-bone lick—An Indian legend—Steaming
down the river in a 'hell afloat'—A 'bust up'—Frightful scene—Saved from ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"After the bust-up there warn't nothin' else to be done but to build a bridge.
Wai, they knew very well that he was the only man who could do it. ..."
4. Wealth Against Commonwealth by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1894)
"A third and fourth "bust-up" rapidly followed, and then a fifth, in the Clinton
Flouring ... After the " bust-up " Albert heard by telegram from New York, ..."
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