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Definition of '-buster'

-buster

(-bʌstəʳ )

Word forms: plural -busters

1. combining form

-buster combines with nouns to form new nouns which refer to someone who breaks a particular law.

The Security Council will consider taking future actions against sanction-busters.

...copyright-busters.

2. combining form

-buster combines with nouns to form new nouns which refer to someone or something that fights or overcomes the specified crime or undesirable activity.

Hoover was building his reputation as a crime-buster.

...fraud-busters.

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-buster in American

(ˈbʌstər ; busˈtər)

a person or thing that breaks, destroys, or incapacitates (a specified person or thing)

used to form slangy compounds

budgetbuster

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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