| baby buster | (n) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically, Syn. buster |
| ball-buster | (n) a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence, Syn. ball-breaker |
| ball-buster | (n) a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing, Syn. ball-breaker |
| blockbuster | (n) a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) |
| blockbuster | (n) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel), Syn. smash hit, megahit |
| bunker buster | (n) a 5, 000 pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding; used to penetrate hardened underground facilities, Syn. GBU-28, Guided Bomb Unit-28 |
| buster | (n) a robust child |
| buster | (n) a person who breaks horses, Syn. broncobuster, bronco buster |
| buster | (n) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something |
| filibuster | (n) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes, Syn. filibusterer |
| filibuster | (n) (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches |
| filibuster | (v) obstruct deliberately by delaying |
| trustbuster | (n) a federal agent who engages in trust busting |
| farmer | (n) a person who operates a farm, Syn. husbandman, sodbuster, granger |
| fellow | (n) an informal form of address for a man, Syn. buster, dude |
| keaton | (n) United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966), Syn. Joseph Francis Keaton, Buster Keaton |
| lister | (n) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow, Syn. lister plough, middle buster, lister plow, middlebreaker |
| thrombolytic | (n) a kind of pharmaceutical that can break up clots blocking the flow of blood to the heart muscle, Syn. thrombolytic agent, clot buster |
| Buster | n. Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [ Slang, U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Filibuster | n. [ Sp. flibuster, flibustero, corrupted fr. E. freebooter. See Freebooter. ] A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Filibuster | v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fillibustered p. pr. & vb. n. Filibustering. ] 1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [ political cant or slang, U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Filibusterism | n. The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Fillibuster | n. See Filibuster. [ 1913 Webster ] |
