bust
adjective/bʌst/
/bʌst/
[not usually before noun] (informal)- (British English) broken
- My watch is bust.
- (of a person or business) failed because of a lack of money synonym bankrupt
- We're bust!
- We lost our money when the travel company went bust.
Word Originadjective mid 18th cent. (originally US, as a noun in the sense ‘an act of bursting or splitting’): variant of burst.
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