busted

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The Indians could no more be measured and "busted"--as the professor calls the making of plaster casts--than could the liquor they had drunk.

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  1. adjective Slang Smashed or broken: busted glass; a busted rib.
  2. adjective Slang Out of order; inoperable: a busted vending machine.
  3. adjective Bankrupt or out of funds: I'd offer to pay but I'm busted.

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  • Her heavy-busted, adolescent body gleamed at him from a diversity of poses, here foreshortened, there curiously elongated as if the painter gloried in his technical competence. —  A Mind to Murder-P D James-Dalgiesh 02
  • "I mostly got the door busted, a big enough hole in it and he crawled through and got out," —  Sex Offender Issues
  • "Girl, you walk like a busted-down freight-train." —  galadarling.com
  • The system is busted, the banks are broke, the Dollar has ZERO intrinsic value, and the Treasury has become the biggest beggar in the history of the world. —  Powder Blue Report
  • He knows they're busted, and to his chagrin, even some in the American "mainstream" press aren't buying it. —  Dakota Voice
 

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/ˈbəstɛd/
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