Bust

Bust may refer to:

  • Bust (sculpture), a sculpture depicting a person's head and shoulders
  • Bust (magazine), a feminist pop culture magazine
  • Bust, Bas-Rhin, a city in north-eastern France
  • Bust, a word for a woman's breasts
  • Busted, a slang term for an arrest
  • Boom and bust cycle in economics
  • Going over 21 in blackjack

Famous quotes containing the word bust:

    “Workers of the world forgive me.”
    —Graffito on the bust of Karl Marx in Bucharest. Quoted in Times (London, May 4, 1990)

    “The grizzly bear whose potent hug
    Was feared by all, is now a rug.

    Great Caesar’s bust is on the shelf,
    And I don’t feel so well myself.”
    —Arthur Guiterman (1891–1943)

    “They’ll bust you in the lobby. You look like a training poster for the narc squad.”
    —John Guare (b. 1938)