Word info

bust out

Speech parts

1. bust out - Noun

2. bust out - Verb

Meaning

(informal, intransitive) To escape (from); break out.
bust out of prison

(informal, transitive) To free from captivity.
They tried to bust the prisoner out, but were thwarted by the police.

(US, informal, intransitive) To reveal, to show.

(US, informal) To bring out, to take out.

(US, informal, nonstandard) To burst out (laughing).

(blackjack, intransitive) To lose by going bust.

(slang, dated) To buy an interest in a business and then take out a large amount of debt, strip the business of assets and then cash out before the business goes into bankruptcy.

(slang) An escape attempt, usually from a prison.

(slang, dated) An attempt at cheating, such as gambling with weighted dice.

(slang, dated) A commercial bankruptcy caused for deliberate and nefarious purposes by organized crime; any deliberately contrived bankruptcy.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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bust-out

Examples

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. Drew Barrymore

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words. Drew Barrymore

Finally, it was time for him to get up on his feet, and he did so, all ready to bust out with lightning and denunciations. Stephen Vincent Benét

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down. Brad Falchuk

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon. Jonathan Rhys Meyers

No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay. J.R. Ward

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