bust up

1. 1.

   smash or break forcefully

   “The kid busted up the car”

   Synonymswreckwrack

   Broaderdestroy

Questions about bust up

What does bust up mean?

bust up means "smash or break forcefully".

What is another word for bust up?

Close synonyms include wreck, wrack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bust up a common word?

bust up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.