Difference between Bust and Flop

What is the difference between Bust and Flop?

Bust as a noun is a sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders while Flop as a noun is an incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.

Bust

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: without any money, broke

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders The breasts and upper thorax of a woman The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation: a narcotics bust A failed enterprise; a bomb

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Alteration of burst To break something To arrest for a crime To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state. An emphatic to do

Example sentence: When you're trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud.

Flop

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fall heavily, because lacking energy.To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Right, squarely, flat-out.With a flopping sound.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouseA ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.

Example sentence: If I flop, let 'em pan me.

We hope you now know whether to use Bust or Flop in your sentence.

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