Definition of Bust-up

1. Noun. A serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship).

Generic synonyms: Dustup, Quarrel, Row, Run-in, Words, Wrangle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bust-up

buspirone
buspirone hydrochloride
buss
busse-buschke disease
bussed
bussell
bussenite
busser
bussers
busses
bussing
bussings
bussu
bussus
bust
bust-up (current term)
bust-up takeover
bust a cap
bust a gasket
bust a move
bust chops
bust one's chops
bust out
bust up

Literary usage of Bust-up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"... TUB " LONG " AND " SHORT " OF IT IS A GENERAL "BUST" UP IN THE " STREET" Tweed is convicted, and no one has done more than you to bring this about. ..."

2. Over the Alleghanies and Across the Prairies: Personal Recollections of the by John Lewis Peyton (1869)
"... Kentucky—Bad roads—Blue sulphur spring —Big-bone lick—An Indian legend—Steaming down the river in a 'hell afloat'—A 'bust up'—Frightful scene—Saved from ..."

3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"After the bust-up there warn't nothin' else to be done but to build a bridge. Wai, they knew very well that he was the only man who could do it. ..."

4. Wealth Against Commonwealth by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1894)
"A third and fourth "bust-up" rapidly followed, and then a fifth, in the Clinton Flouring ... After the " bust-up " Albert heard by telegram from New York, ..."

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