bust out v.4
1. to do, to perform, to make happen.
![]() | Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories n.p.: They all busts out cryin’ an’ shakin’ hands. | ‘Preachin’ on Kingdom-Come’|
![]() | Out for the Coin 49: If I don’t get ’pology I’ll bust out crying! | |
![]() | Coll. Short Stories (1941) 43: Finally he just laid back and busted out laughin’. | ‘Alibi Ike’ in|
![]() | Pulps (1970) 66/1: A man who [...] bust out in a foreign tongue. | ‘Old Pard’ in Goodstone|
![]() | Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 45: What the hell do you think I can do, eh? Bust out crying and take you home to your missus? | |
![]() | Really the Blues 149: It was the hot swan-song of Chicago jazz that we busted out with. | |
![]() | Somewhere in the Darkness 27: ‘You know, you got to ease on in to some things. You can’t just bust it out because you think it’s right’. | |
![]() | Hooky Gear 5: Me & Duane catch eyes an we bust out laughin. |
2. (US black) vt. to make available, to use.
![]() | Glory Field 343: ‘Next time we go anywhere,’ Shep said. ‘I’m busting out the limo’. |