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单词 tooth-busting
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tooth-busting
a. Forming adjectives designating something which bursts or breaks something denoted by the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-busting, brain-busting, heart-busting, tooth-busting, etc. Also (chiefly Military slang): forming adjectives designating weaponry, a vehicle, etc., used to attack or destroy something denoted by the first element, as dam-busting, tank-busting, etc. Cf. -buster comb. form 1, 3.More established compounds of this nature are treated at the first element or as separate entries: see ball-busting adj., blockbusting adj., clot-busting adj. at clot n. Additions, etc.
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1761 Gentleman's Mag. May 232/1 Grief, Pow'rless of utterance, come heart-busting.
1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 492/1 Not rib-busting, perhaps, but comedy of a very fair sort.
1953 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Aug. 519/3 It remained for ‘dam-busting’ Lancasters of the Royal Air Force..to deliver the coup de grâce.
1967 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 23 Aug. 30/3 ‘Barefoot’, the story of a young couple's first week of marriage in a lung-busting sixth floor brownstone, is still a gem.
1984 Washington Post 25 June b5/1 Fruit should be pureed so that it won't freeze into hard, tooth-busting blocks.
1991 Britain's Gulf War 15/1 Around 2,000 up-to-the-minute aircraft ranging from the massive B52 bombers to tank-busting helicopters.
1996 Face Apr. 36/1 Smith..trains his class through a rigorous course of falls, jumps and rolls in preparation for appearances in Hollywood's ever-increasing number of hyper-realistic limb-busting action shots.
2004 S. R. Shaber Big Funeral ii. 28 He was finishing up a brain-busting exam for North Carolina History.
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