buster

kaveri

hävittäjä, tuhoaja

tanakka lapsi

pienet ikäluokat puhekieltä someone Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
1614, S. Jerome, Moses his Sight of Canaan, 147:

Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds; a destruction of toil toyle?

Rothlin was described... by the papers as the buster of the bandit ring.

German ‘balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage.

Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not... to make city-busters more horrible.

The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber.

Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.

The professional fraud-busters of the art world.

New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters.

‘I had to clean this old roarer,’ continued the ‘editor’... as he wiped the barrel of his pistol. ‘She's a buster, I tell you.’

What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.

That's generous, old buster.

An extremely wealthy old buster.

‘Careful, buster,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’

Three penny busters, and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard.

An 8oz. loaf of brown bread... goes by the name of ‘buster’, I suppose on account of the way they blow you out.

They were on a buster, and were taken up by the police.

All off for a buster, armstrong, hollering down the street.

‘This is a buster,’ i.e. a powerful or heavy wind.

The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot Simoom.

When the barometer drops rapidly... watch out for a strong sou'wester. A buster can be on you in a flash.

Dainty... came down ‘a buster’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself.

In that state he is called a ‘Buster’, bursting his shell.

Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters.