Definition of bust (one's) back

bust (one's) back    

verb

• to work hard.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        
  
  Citation from "Chapter 5", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 1 Episode 5 (2009) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to accomplish, work hard.

  Last edited on Jan 11 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 11 2012.

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Other terms relating to 'to accomplish, work hard':
pull an all-nighter	Definitions include: See all-nighter.
all-nighter	Definitions include: an all-night period of awakedness to finish a task.
work (one's) *ss off	Definitions include: to work hard.
cruise	Definitions include: to leave.
bust (one's) hump	Definitions include: to criticize; "get on (one's) case".
rat race	Definitions include: the busy, hectic modern urban lifestyle.
nail	Definitions include: to have sex with.
hack	Definitions include: to play with a Hacky Sack (footbag.)
chase paper	Definitions include: to seek "paper" (i.e. money.)
grub	Definitions include: good tasting.
wait hand and foot	Definitions include: to expend significant effort waiting on (helping, being an assistant to) a person.
work (one's) fingers to the bone	Definitions include: to work extremely hard.
keep (one's) nose to the grindstone	Definitions include: See nose to the grindstone.
proper-dopper	Definitions include: to complete a task with excellence.
110 percent	Definitions include: one's best effort.
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Other terms relating to 'back':
back	Definitions include: large buttocks.
back 40	Definitions include: wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area.
back *sswards	Definitions include: done or performed incorrectly, strangely, opposite from the correct way, or clumsily; "backwards".
back at the ranch	Definitions include: exclamation useful when the conversation is going off tangent.
back at you	Definitions include: and the same to you.
back-catalog	Definitions include: obscure.
back-catalogue	Definitions include: obscure.
back door	Definitions include: the anus.
back door man	Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side.
back-door trots, the	Definitions include: horrendous diarrhea.
back end	Definitions include: the anus.
back forty	Definitions include: a place that is far away.
back in the day	Definitions include: at some time before the present.
back in the saddle	Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
back off	Definitions include: large buttocks.
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Other terms relating to 'bust':
bust	Definitions include: an event with a displeasing outcome.
bust a b*tch	Definitions include: to perform a u-turn in a vehicle.
bust a cap	Definitions include: to fire a bullet; "shoot".
bust a dook	Definitions include: to defecate; "poop".
bust a funny	Definitions include: to make a joke
bust a groove	Definitions include: to dance.
bust a grub	Definitions include: to eat.
bust a grumpie	Definitions include: misspelling / spelling variant of bust a grumpy.
bust a grumpy	Definitions include: to defecate; "poop".
bust a gut	Definitions include: in the UK, the equivalent of the American bust a nut.
bust a load	Definitions include: to ejaculate.
bust a move	Definitions include: to dance.
bust a nugget	Definitions include: to defecate.
bust a nut	Definitions include: to work hard.
bust a nutt	Definitions include: spelling variant of bust a nut, which means to ejaculate.
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