bust

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The focal point of the bust was a loaded Colt. 45-calibre semi-automatic handgun, found along with two magazines, police said.

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  1. noun A sculpture representing a person's head, shoulders, and upper chest.
  2. noun A woman's bosom.
  3. noun The human chest.
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bust:   busted ·  busts ·  busting
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  1. French buste, from Italian busto, possibly from Latin bustum, sepulchral monument.
  2. Variant of burst.

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  1. Formerly also busto (from Italian); = German buste, from French buste, from Italian busto = Spanish Portuguese busto, from Middle Latin bustum, the trunk of the body, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Middle Latin busta, a box, one of the forms of buxida: see boist, buss, box, etc. Cf. English chest and trunk, used in a similar manner.
  2. English dial. variant of buist.
  3. from bust, v.
 

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