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Meanings of bust up in English

Portuguese
destruir
Catalan
desbaratar
Spanish
destrozar

Smash or break forcefully.

destruir
Usage of bust up in English
1
He used it to make those tricks bust up our parlor, remember?
Karen Memory
2
Some of them ventured to ask him if Harvard had bust up.
Coniston — Volume 04
3
In the chapte we have written they are about to bust up.
The new yorker
4
That bust up fork alone-butwe'll put her to rights for you.
Action Front
5
All de dances got to bust up at about 'leven o'clock, too.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
6
Think you can bust up our cargo an' get away with it?
Man-Size
7
I'll bust up them traps of his'n faster'n he kin make 'em.
The Boy Trapper
8
If we're not, it's we who'll get the bust up-notthe Turks.'
On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
9
If we try to come about, we'll bust up for sure.
Winter’s Tale
10
We didn't ask 'em to jump X-Ray and bust up the Warp Room!
Stinger
11
There had been something of a bust up; that was all he knew.
Crome Yellow
12
I brought the bust up with me, as you asked me to do.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
13
I expect the combination is about ready to bust up, he whispered confidentially.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
14
Which demoralised our kitchen, and which bust up our Big Dine.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890
15
I'm going to bust up this nice little racket you boys are running.
The capitol game
16
Why, there'll be a bust up if they don't look out.
In Luck at Last
This collocation consists of:
Translations for bust up
Portuguese
destruir
Bust up through the time
Bust up across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common