(economics, finance, business) Featuring or characterized by a boom and bust cycle in a market or an economy, in which rapid price increase is followed by falling prices or recession.

Alternative form of boom and bust, a pattern of great prosperity followed by recession

Alternative form of boom-and-bust, featuring or characterized by a boom and bust cycle

(slang) An escape attempt, usually from a prison. / (slang, dated) An attempt at cheating, such as gambling with weighted dice.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bust out

A decrease in the birthrate.

present participle of bust a gut

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bust a gut

simple past tense and past participle of bust a gut

(colloquial) exhausting, causing someone to be out of breath.