See buster in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1940 September 2, Life, 29/1:",
"text": "German ‘balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1958 February 10, Life, section 70:",
"text": "Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not... to make city-busters more horrible.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"ref": "1891 July, Harper's Magazine, 208/2:",
"text": "The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:",
"text": "Some busters caught their horses for the first time over the head, and snubbed or choked them until they fell gasping.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"ref": "1920, F. A. McKenzie, ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson, v. 83",
"text": "Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum."
},
{
"ref": "1974 July 4, New Scientist, 65/2",
"text": "The professional fraud-busters [of the art world]."
},
{
"ref": "1984 November 18, Times, N.Y, iv. 24/2:",
"text": "New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"ref": "1833 April, Parthenon, section 293:",
"text": "‘I had to clean this old roarer,’ continued the ‘editor’... as he wiped the barrel of his pistol. ‘She's a buster, I tell you.’",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2004 November 20, South Wales Echo, section 9:",
"text": "What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.",
"type": "quote"
}
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{
"ref": "1838 March 24, New Yorker, 4/1:",
"text": "That's generous, old buster.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves, section 79:",
"text": "An extremely wealthy old buster.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986 February 27, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):",
"text": "Calvin: I'm going to watch TV all night.\nMom: That's what you think, buster!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, S. MacKay, Fall Guy, ix. 113:",
"text": "‘Careful, buster,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc..",
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"ref": "1835 September 16, Morning Post, 4/2:",
"text": "Three penny busters, and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1904 June 8, Journal of the Department of Labour, New Zealand, section 536:",
"text": "An 8oz. loaf of brown bread... goes by the name of ‘buster’, I suppose on account of the way they blow you out.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"ref": "1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms:",
"text": "They were on a buster, and were taken up by the police.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 405:",
"text": "All off for a buster, armstrong, hollering down the street.",
"type": "quote"
}
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],
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"slang"
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},
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"English dated terms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms:",
"text": "‘This is a buster,’ i.e. a powerful or heavy wind.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Frank Cowan, Australia, section 14:",
"text": "The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot Simoom.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1991, J. Moore, By Way of Wind, section 121:",
"text": "When the barometer drops rapidly... watch out for a strong sou'wester. A buster can be on you in a flash.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"dated",
"slang"
]
},
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"English terms with quotations",
"New Zealand English",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1874 April, Baily's Monthly Magazine, section 114:",
"text": "Dainty... came down ‘a buster’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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],
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"New-Zealand"
]
},
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"English terms with quotations",
"Regional English"
],
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"ref": "1855 October 18, Henry A. Wise, letter in J.P. Hambleton's Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise (1856), 448",
"text": "In that state he is called a ‘Buster’, bursting his shell."
},
{
"ref": "2002 January 6, Times, N.Y, v. 4/6:",
"text": "Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Gambling"
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{
"ref": "1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 283:",
"text": "Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1977, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, The Development of the Law of Gambling: 1776-1976, page 423:",
"text": "To make six-eight, natural dice, or busters, he would take unspotted dice and then grind and color only the spots he wanted.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "person or thing that breaks or overwhelms",
"word": "rebenta-"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person or thing that breaks or overwhelms",
"word": "Brecher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person or thing that breaks or overwhelms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Aufbrecher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person or thing that breaks or overwhelms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Knacker"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person or thing that breaks or overwhelms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zersprenger"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tio"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tipus"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "company"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"informal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vriend"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"word": "kamu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pote"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Freundchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Kerlchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Junge"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Alter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kerl"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "párenʹ",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "па́рень"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drug",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "друг"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"word": "tipo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"word": "tío"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "guy, friend",
"word": "amigo"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "xafaxancles"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "botaxarcos"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "botabancals"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "astropellat"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "tros de figa"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "castellà"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trompellot"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "xafaxarcos"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "sangonera"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "uuno"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"word": "mäntti"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Loser"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Idiot"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "otário"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neudáčnik",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "неуда́чник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "strjómnyj čuvák",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "стрёмный чува́к"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boludo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "loser, uncool person",
"tags": [
"South-America",
"masculine"
],
"word": "huevón"
}
],
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"Gang Busters",
"Ghostbusters"
],
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}
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