bust-up

1. 1.

   a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)

   Broaderquarrel

Questions about bust-up

What does bust-up mean?

bust-up means "a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)".

How many syllables are in bust-up?

bust-up has 2 syllables and divides as bu-st-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bust-up a common word?

bust-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.