-buster combines with nouns to form new nouns which refer to someone who breaks a particular law.
The Security Council will consider taking future actions against sanction-busters.
...copyright-busters.
2. combining form
-buster combines with nouns to form new nouns which refer to someone or something that fights or overcomes the specified crime or undesirable activity.
Hoover was building his reputation as a crime-buster.
...fraud-busters.
buster in British English
(ˈbʌstə)
noun slang
1. (in combination)
a person or thing destroying something as specified
dambuster
2. US and Canadian
a term of address for a boy or man
3. US and Canadian
a person who breaks horses
4. mainly US and Canadian
a spree, esp a drinking bout
buster in American English
(ˈbʌstər)
noun
1. US
broncobuster, trustbuster, etc.
2. US; [alsoB-]
boy; man; fellow
, a mildly contemptuous or jocular term of direct address
Word origin
bust2 + -er
-buster in American English
(ˈbʌstər)
a person or thing that breaks, destroys, or incapacitates (a specified person orthing)