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adjective

busted adj.

Inoperable due to damage; broken; of a machine; as, the coke machine is busted. (informal)

Arrested for committing a crime; of a person; as, the rock star was busted for coke possession.. (informal)

(predicate) Same as demoted; said especially of military rank, and often folowed by to; as, he was busted to corporal for being AWOL.

(predicate) Same as exhausted; of people.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Busted" Quotes from Famous Books

... done as he was plannin'. So I called up Mr. Gresham that night and told him everything but the woman's name. My idea was that he'd bust up the elopement. I went to the station to make sure that Mrs. Lawrence got there—knowin' that once she' was there, if young Mr. Gresham busted things up, I'd be able to blackmail Mrs. Lawrence—her bein' a rich woman. I'm comin' clean with ...

— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen

... man,' says Halloran, 'who is tryin' to complete the finishin' of the railroad. 'Twas the project of a private corporation, but it busted, and then the government took it up. De Vegy is a big politician, and wants to be prisident. The people want the railroad completed, as they're taxed mighty on account of it. The De Vegy man is pushin' it along as a ...

— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry

... of mine, with your philandering. Hand it here to me, Tom Mayberry, like I tell you!" And the Doctor hastened to pick up the little gasping bunch of drenched feathers, which Mrs. Peavey tucked in the corner of her shawl "Did you all hear that a car busted into another one down in the City day before yesterday and throwed the driver and broke a lady's arm and cut a baby's leg shameful? It was in the morning paper I saw down to the store; and a wind storm blew off ...

— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess

... seriousness of Short Lessons on Great Subjects she presently invented interrupting them at intervals to introduce Gerald and herself to some rock or tree or mountain, as if it had been a poor person standing by neglected. "Jack Sprat," she said, "and The Fat!" "A busted cream-puff," she said, "and a drink of water!" Further, "Dino and Retta!" Finally, with imagination ...

— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall

... I found him, He'd been out all night and the side of his head all busted. After a dingo he was—I seen the tracks. Coming back from Gavan Blake's he must 'a' seen the dorg off the track, and the colt he was on was orkard like and must have hit him agen a tree. The colt kem home with the saddle under his ...

— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

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