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bust a gasket

bust a gasket is the alternative form of blow a gasket.

Meaning of blow a gasket

Verb

blow a gasket (third-person singular simple present blows a gasket, present participle blowing a gasket, simple past blew a gasket, past participle blown a gasket)

  1. (informal) To become very angry or upset.
    • Jack blew a gasket when he saw his son's poor report card.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, gasket. To cause the seal made by a gasket to fail.

Forms of bust a gasket

third-person singular presentbusts a gasket
present participlebusting a gasket
past participlebusted a gasket
pastbusted a gasket
past participlebust a gasket
pastbust a gasket

Questions about bust a gasket

What is bust a gasket the alternative form of?
Bust a gasket is the alternative form of blow a gasket.

Words near bust a gasket in the dictionary

  1. bussus
  2. bussy
  3. bust
  4. bust a cap
  5. bust a cap in someone's ass
  6. bust a gasket
  7. bust a gut
  8. bust a move
  9. bust a nut
  10. bust a U
  11. bust around

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bust a gasket (page history and authors); blow a gasket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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