buster

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Buster may refer to:

In film and television

• Buster (film), a film starring Phil Collins
  • Buster (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film
• Busters verden, a Danish television series and movie by Bille August
  • "Buster", theme song for Busters verden by Nanna Lüders Jensen
• Price Busters TV, a shopping channel based in the UK who has a mascot that is a monkey called Buster
• Buster Bluth, a character from Arrested Development
• Buster, a crash test dummy used as a test subject on MythBusters
• Buster Baxter, frequently identified as "Buster the Bunny", star of Postcards from Buster and originally from the show Arthur
• Ghostbusters, 1984 film
• Buster Blues, a character in Blues Brothers 2000
• Sgt. Buster Kilrain, a character from the novel The Killer Angels and the 1993 movie version of it, Gettysburg.

In music

• Little Busters, an album by Japanese rock band The Pillows

In cartoons and computer games

• Buster (comic), a British comic
• Buster (sport comic), a Swedish comic
• Buster Bunny, a character from Tiny Toon Adventures
• Buster, a puppy owned by Darby in My Friends Tigger & Pooh
• Buster, the general term for various kinds of weapons in the Mega Man universes
• GAT-X103 Buster Gundam, gundam from gundam seed universe
• Buster sword, sword used by cloud strife in final fantasy VII

People with name or nickname Buster

• Buster Douglas, a heavyweight boxer
• Buster Edwards, member of the gang that perpetrated the Great Train Robbery
• Buster Lloyd Jones, a famous veterinarian
• Buster Keaton, an American actor from the silent film era
• Buster Martin, English centenarian, valet and hopeful London Marathon participant
• Buster Merryfield, English actor; most famous for his portrayal of 'Uncle' Albert Trotter in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses
• Buster Meikle, singer and guitarist, formerly with Unit 4 + 2 and Buster & Bill
• Buster Olney, current ESPN journalist
• Buster Poindexter, a pseudonym of David Johansen
• Buster (Jeffrey Wayne Cole), a star of gay pornographic films
• Buster Williams, jazz bass player
• Buster Winters, American voice actor.

Other

• Buster (dog), a dog belonging to Roy Hattersley, who has published his diaries (ghost written by Hattersley)
• Buster, a fighter pilot brevity code signaling an aircraft to use maximum continuous power
• Buster, The Crash Test Dummy, is a mannequin used in place of actual people in life-threatening stunts on Mythbusters.

Etymology

It has two possible etymologies:-

1. Agent noun of the verb bust.
2. First used as a vocative, from Spanish busté, a dialect form of usted = "you": compare Bozo (etymology).

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