Bust vs Fling - What's the difference?
bust | fling |
A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
The breasts and upper thorax of a woman
To break something
(slang) To arrest for a crime
(slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
(snowboarding) An emphatic to do
(US, informal) To reduce in rank.
* 1962 , , 01:56:35
(poker) To lose all of one's chips.
(blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
(slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation:
(slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
(sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
(chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
(slang) without any money, broke
An act of throwing, often violently.
An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
* D. Jerrold
Short, often sexual relationship.
(figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling" ).
(obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
* Jonathan Swift
A kind of dance.
(obsolete) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
* Old proverb
To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
* Dryden
* Addison
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
(archaic) To throw oneself in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
* Milton
* Elizabeth Browning
(archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
* Helen Crocket, The Ettrick Shepherd's Last Tale
(archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.
As verbs the difference between bust and fling
is that bust is while fling is to throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.As a noun fling is
an act of throwing, often violently.bust
English
(wikipedia bust)Etymology 1
From (etyl) buste < (etyl) busto, probably from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* busty * overbust * underbustEtymology 2
From the verb .Verb
(en verb)- If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.
Synonyms
; to arrest for a crime : nickDerived terms
* bust a cap * bust a gasket * bust a move * bust a nut * bust ass cold * bust loose * bust one's ass * bust one's balls * bust one's chops * bust out * bust upNoun
(en noun)- a narcotics bust
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* bust up/bust-up * (adjective) * busterAnagrams
* English ergative verbs ----fling
English
Noun
(en noun)- the fling of a horse
- When I was as young as you, I had my fling . I led a life of pleasure.
- I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday.
- I, who love to have a fling , / Both at senate house and king.
- the Highland fling
- England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.
Synonyms
* (l)Verb
- 'Tis Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, / Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.
- I know thy generous temper well. / Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire.
- Wilkinson was struggling, sending the re-start straight into touch and flinging a pass the same way, and France then went close to the first try of the contest as Clerc took a long pass out on the left and was just bundled into touch by the corner flag.
- And crop-full, out of doors he flings .
- I flung' closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, ' flings to sheath.
- The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air.
- The scold began to flout and fling .