gangbuster
/ˈɡaŋbʌstə
/noun North American informal
1An officer of a law-enforcement agency who takes part in breaking up criminal gangs.She tries not to come in like a whirlwind or gangbusters and turn things upside down....
- His record as a terror fighter is about as dismal as his record as a gangbuster is laudable.
- For 25 years, he has been a gangbuster for the United States attorney in Chicago, a workhorse prosecutor who put away dozens of organized crime figures with piercing arguments, a devotion to justice and a gentlemanly style.
2 [as modifier] Very successful: the restaurant did gangbuster business...
- After a brief period where the Fetish Café became the Fetish Funhouse and where ‘things just weren't quite right,’ the club has recently returned to its old formula and is, once again, doing gangbuster business.
- The first half of 2000 had gangbuster growth, leading many media organizations to have false hopes and expectations for the full year.
- Although he is struggling with Anaheim, they are having gangbuster seasons.
Phrases
go (or like) gangbusters
- short order
- Short Parliament
- short-pitched
- short-range
- short rib
- short-run
- shorts
- short score
- short, sharp shock
- short-sheet
- short shrift
- short sight
- short-sighted
- short-sightedly
- short-sightedness
- short-sleeved
- short-staffed
- short-stay
- shortstop
- short story
- short subject
- short suit
- short-tailed vole
- short temper
- short-tempered