| 单词 | skull-buster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskull-buster 1. Forming nouns denoting a person who or thing which ‘busts’ or breaks the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-buster, knuckle-buster, rate-buster, skull-buster, etc.More established compounds of this nature are treated at the first element or as separate entries: see ball-buster n., bronco-buster n., chartbuster n., price buster n. at price n. Compounds 2, etc. ΚΠ 1835 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 21 July The President's encomium upon Governor Wolf is a ‘gall buster’ to the disorganisers. 1897 Gentleman Farmer Feb. 127 We need..a curculio buster, a..potato bug assassinator. 1934 Amer. Speech 9 27/2 (Glossary of prison slang) Skull-buster, a detective. 1938 Boys' Life Oct. 12 Even hundreds of years ago there were atom-busters of a sort, and they called them ‘alchemists’. 1959 Pop. Sci. Mar. 218 Installing a wire hose clamp in tight quarters needn't be a knuckle-buster. 1970 C. Bay Struct. of Freedom ii. 46 Workers who speed up production, or ‘rate busters’ as they are called. 1972 J. Campbell Myths to live By vii. 141 The..carefully programmed sequences of brain-busters. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 31 What did you bring to shoot? said Rawlins. Just Grandad's old thumb-buster. 2006 P. Rusesabagina & T. Zoellner Ordinary Man i. 14 The meal served is always a belly buster. skull-buster skull-buster n. U.S. slang something that taxes the mind; a complicated problem. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] riddleOE purposec1350 problema1382 propositiona1382 conclusion1393 divinailc1430 opposal?a1439 riddling?c1475 wordc1480 why1532 dark, hard sentence1535 enigma1539 remblere1599 puzzlement1646 gripha1652 puzzler1651 riddlemy riddlemy1652 puzzle1655 crux1718 teaser1759 puzzleation1767 conundrum1790 poser1793 riddle-me-ree1805 stumper1807 tickler1825 sticker1849 brain-teaser1850 grueller1856 question mark1870 brain-twister1878 skull-buster1926 mind-bender1968 1926 University Mag. (Univ. Va.) Oct. 17 Skull-buster, a particularly hard course. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues i. 18 Most of my skullbusters got solved at The School. < as lemmas |
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