Bust-up (Noun)
Meaning
A serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship).
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- They had a massive bust-up over whose fault it was, and never spoke again.
- Their long-standing friendship ended in a public bust-up at the local pub.
- The bust-up between the two friends was so intense that nobody expected them to reconcile.
- A bust-up over a minor issue snowballed into an irreversible rift between them.
- After a bitter bust-up, they decided to go their separate ways.