buster

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(bŭs'tər) pronunciation
n.
  1. One that breaks up something: a crime buster.
  2. A broncobuster.
  3. A particularly robust child.
  4. A baby buster.
  5. Informal. Fellow. Used in addressing a man or boy, especially out of annoyance: Watch where you're going, buster!

An order to fly at maximum continuous power. The term is used for combat aircraft.

noun
noun, mainly US

A riotous fellow; a 'mate', chap (esp. as a friendly or slightly disrespectful form of address). (1850 —) .
A. Shepard 'OK, Buster,' I said to myself, 'you volunteered for this thing' (1962).

[Dialectal variant of burster.]


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Buster may refer to:

People

Musicians and singers

Actors

  • Buster Crabbe (1908–1983), American actor and athlete
  • Buster Keaton (1895–1966), American actor from the silent film era
  • Buster Larsen (1920–1993), Danish comic film and television actor
  • Buster Merryfield (1920–1999), English actor most famous for his portrayal of 'Uncle' Albert Trotter in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses
  • Dolly Buster (Kateřina Nora Baumberger) (born 1969), film producer and director, actress, author, and former porn star

Athletes

Other

  • Buster Edwards (1931–1994), member of the gang that perpetrated the Great Train Robbery
  • Buster Glosson, retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general
  • Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914–1980), British veterinarian
  • Buster Martin, who claimed to be the oldest employee in the UK
  • Lionel Crabb (1909-1956?), nicknamed Buster, British Royal Navy and MI6 diver
  • John Buster, director of the team that performed the first embryo transfer resulting in a live birth

In film and television

In cartoons and computer games

Other

  • Buster (dog), a dog belonging to Roy Hattersley, who has published his diaries (ghost written by Hattersley)
  • Buster, a brevity code signaling an aircraft pilot to use maximum continuous power
  • The Amiga custom computer chip "Buster"

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - brormand, bessefar

Nederlands (Dutch)
kerel (aanspreekvorm), hevige storm

Français (French)
n. - balaise, pote (fam)

Deutsch (German)
n. - (ugs.) Freundchen, plötzlicher, starker Wind, -brecher

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - φιλαράκι, δυνατός άνεμος

Italiano (Italian)
tizio, baldoria

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fugitivo (m), coisa (f) grande ou surpreendente (gír.), bebedeira (f)

Русский (Russian)
чувак

Español (Spanish)
n. - persona violenta

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - friskus, jättegrej, högljudd festprisse

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
庞然大物, 非凡的人, 小鬼, 茁壮的孩子, 小家伙

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 龐然大物, 非凡的人, 小鬼, 茁壯的孩子, 小傢伙

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 파괴하는 사람[것], 떠들기, 거대한 사람[것]

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 破壊する人, 鋤, おいきみ, すばらしいもの, 大男, 強風

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تسميه احتقار لرجل ما, من يقضي على شىء (اجرام أو زواج مثلا)‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ברנש, חבר, בחור, משמיד, מפוצץ, הורס‬


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