1892 A.C. Gunter Miss Dividends 74: ‘The Cap looks as busted up as if he had lost on four aces,’ for he goes about in a broken kind of a way.at busted, adj.1
1892 A.C. Gunter Miss Dividends 68: ‘Ain’t he a stem-winder, though?’ goes on the boy. ‘He was the most popular man on the line when it was built.’.at stem-winder, n.