The word "bust" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use "bust" as a verb in the following situations: 1. To break into pieces: "The window was busted open by vandals." 2. To catch or capture someone: "The police busted the thief who had stolen the jewelry." 3. To fail: "She busted the test and didn't get the job."
Nick Clegg's pose as honest broker was a grating reprise of last time – and it felt bust.
There were pictures of the Capitol Building, and the Malacon, a bust of Hemingway overlooking the sea.
The evidence trail amounted to the easiest bust in the history of online piracy.
When he spells it out, what he is talking about is a small and gradual real-term fall in prices to make property more affordable over time, the end of boom and bust in the property market.
On Tuesday, he claimed the company, which went bust in 1990, was not insolvent.
Seinfeld was inventive, Friends was a global phenomenon, Will and Grace went out of its way to bust taboos, and even Everybody Loves Raymond was bearable once you understood that every single character would be happier if any of the other characters died.
At present, UK law limits government redundancy payments when a company has gone bust to those working in "establishments" – taken to mean individual shops or warehouses – where more than 20 people work.
It's described as "not so much a play as a jaw-dropping account of how, as the banks went bust, capitalism was replaced by a socialism that bailed out the rich alone".
The rise and fall of Polly Peck always seemed an uncomfortable paradigm for the Thatcher years of boom and bust, and not only because of the rare talent that Mr Nadir himself had developed for making friends in high places, including her government.
And Brad Haddin stood ready to bail the outfit out whenever it threatened to go bust.
