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busted on

busted on is the simple past and past participle of bust on.

Meaning of bust on

Verb

bust on (third-person singular simple present busts on, present participle busting on, simple past and past participle busted on or (colloquial) bust on)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To make a joke concerning; to ridicule or make fun of.
    • Mr. Moffatt explained different signals that students use to express friendship, like "busting" on one another. To "bust on" someone is "to deflate their pretensions by means of aggressive verbal mockery." Mr. Moffatt explained that students only "bust on" their friends.1989 April 9, “Campus Life: Rutgers Anthropologist Examines Sex Life On the Raritan”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Feb 2018
  2. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) To hit or attack (someone); to insult (someone); to snitch on (someone).

Questions about busted on

What is busted on the simple past and past participle of?
Busted on is the simple past and past participle of bust on.

Words near busted on in the dictionary

  1. busted flush
  2. busted flushes
  3. busted in
  4. busted into
  5. busted off
  6. busted on
  7. busted one's arse
  8. busted one's balls
  9. busted one's chops
  10. busted one's gut
  11. busted one's hump

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Adapted from Wiktionary: busted on (page history and authors); bust on (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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