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Bust-up   Listen
noun
bust-up  n.  A serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship). "With some antick bustoes in the niches."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bust-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... sake stop jawing,' I cried. 'Everything's against me. I haven't had a bit of luck since I came on shore at Leith. What's the harm in a poor devil with an empty stomach picking up some money he finds in a bust-up motor-car? That's all I done, and for that I've been chivvied for two days by those blasted bobbies over those blasted hills. I tell you I'm fair sick of it. You can do what you like, old boy! Ned Ainslie's got no fight ...
— The Thirty-nine Steps • John Buchan



Words linked to "Bust-up" :   bust-up takeover, wrangle, words



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