What's the difference between buddy and buster?

Buddy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Katie Neil, 22, works full-time for Buddies in Suffolk and has spent the summer supporting five young people.
  • (2) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
  • (3) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
  • (4) Then there's me and my buddy Ralph Garman , who does a daily radio show in LA, doing our entertainment podcast Hollywood Babble-On , which is basically just two guys who've worked in showbiz long enough to have informed opinions, sitting around taking the piss out of the entertainment industry.
  • (5) Approximately 7pm, Rowrah Bird calls in on old schoolfriend and drinking buddy Neil Jacques, 52, who lives on the same street.
  • (6) It is in honour of those killers that Cameron's new buddies march through the streets of Riga.
  • (7) In later life the star had to give up drinking due to ill health but the greatest acting triumph of his later years was playing another notorious drunk, and O'Toole drinking buddy, Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
  • (8) However, Buddies does more than simply offer respite care or home help.
  • (9) Other new options the review presents for providers of NHS care include increased use of “buddying”, by which high-performing hospitals help those in special measures, joint venture networks such as the orthopaedic centre in south-west London run by four NHS trusts, and the “expert provider” system.
  • (10) Even though we have Facebook, who said I am not interested as a player to play with my buddies in a room?
  • (11) They had formed an intense attachment to other men in their combat unit, which had been disrupted by the death of a buddy.
  • (12) Eighty-two-year-old Richard “Buddy” Weaver was killed by Oklahoma City police after he allegedly raised a machete at an officer who opened fire; neighbors later described Weaver as having schizophrenia.
  • (13) His buddies – the far-right, climate-denying , UN-hating renegades who formed his campaign brains trust – are egging him on to simply break it, to smash it on the floor for a good laugh.
  • (14) 5.34pm BST Politics should be consumed in moderation , and that reportedly goes for alcohol too, but if you insist on mixing them and are looking for some sort of structure in dissipation, well, our beer buddies at Conservative Intelligence Briefing have created a Presidential Debates drinking game.
  • (15) In Horrible Bosses, Bateman's hard-working office drone attempts to murder his psychotic boss, Kevin Spacey , and assist his two buddies in doing the same to their bosses.
  • (16) Louisiana attorney general Buddy Caldwell could have set Woodfox free immediately.
  • (17) But he got by, until the funding was removed for his buddy-system in the second year.
  • (18) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
  • (19) It was one of those clichéd, filmic moments when I looked at him and breathed: "You know, old buddy, that might just work …" Or so I recall.
  • (20) Metcalfe will find out whether the chutney is a winner at his next 'buddy day'.

Buster


Definition:

  • (n.) Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Writing in his Daily Telegraph column , Johnson said most Britons wanted “someone to come along with a bunker buster” and kill the man, reported to be British, “as fast as possible”.
  • (2) Bunker-buster bomb reports may mark new stage in Russia's Syrian assault Read more Medics took shelter in the hospital basement during the mid-morning attack, sending calls for aid as they hid until government planes had retreated.
  • (3) The situation was so alarming that Sir Martin Narey, chairman of the National Adoption Leadership Board, saw fit to publish a “myth buster” – a new guide to adoption law for adoption social workers and lawyers working in adoption that confirmed the law was unchanged.
  • (4) At Christmas 1964, he was joined in Mexico by his fellow train robbers Buster Edwards, who had not yet been caught, and Charlie Wilson, who had escaped from Winson Green prison.
  • (5) The commission is constantly on the defensive, feeling the need to issue a "Myth Buster" leaflet in 23 languages to try to highlight the benefits of EU spending.
  • (6) Many of the robbers have already died: Charlie Wilson was shot dead in the Spain in 1990; Buster Edwards killed himself in 1994; Roy James died in 1997; Jimmy Hussey died last year after supposedly making a deathbed confession that he was the gang member who coshed the train driver, Jack Mills, who died of leukaemia seven years later.
  • (7) It was one of the old Prince Buster records we used to play on the pub jukebox.
  • (8) Garcia takes a swing that gets a piece of the ball as well as Buster Posey's catcher's mask.
  • (9) Barry has never been the most confident of figures, his habit of leaving his shirt untucked and his mournful face adding to a reputation for haplessness that made it seem at times he is what Buster Keaton would have been if he had been a goalkeeper.
  • (10) The Giants bats are the same, still led by catcher Buster Posey, second baseman Marco Scutaro, and of course, Kung Fu Panda, who plays third and is also known as Pablo Sandoval.
  • (11) Heck, if the Giants could do it a year ago, why not these Dodgers, who have even better pitching than San Francisco did, not to mention lineup that could wipe the floor with Buster Posey and his buddies on the Bay.
  • (12) He is clear that it is McQueen's background as a film-oriented visual artist (winning the 1999 Turner prize for one of them, Deadpan, in which McQueen recreated Buster Keaton's collapsing house stunt from Steamboat Bill Jr ) that marks him out as a director.
  • (13) Buster Posey who still hasn't really heated up bat-wise is next.
  • (14) Our jargon buster for climate talks jargon What to expect from the Doha climate talks The highs and lows of 15 years of climate talks - in pictures Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 11.35am GMT State of play Fiona Harvey, our environment correspondent, has just filed a news story on the state of the key texts that negotiators are trying to agree on.
  • (15) Buster Mottram and his NF views Mottram was good enough to be the world No15 but he only managed to reach the fourth round once, in 1982.
  • (16) Buster Edwards had hanged himself, Charlie Wilson was shot dead in Spain, others had died of natural causes or, like Reynolds, finished their sentences and written their autobiographies.
  • (17) Buster Posey swings and sends this one way, way, way, way back beyond left center field and the Giants have busted this one wide open.
  • (18) Notable early sales included Hirst's Capaneus , a kaleidoscopic assemblage of moths, butterflies, spiders and beetles that sold for £600,000, and Jeff Koons's almost life-size sculpture of silent film star Buster Keaton, with an asking price of between £3m and £3.5m.
  • (19) Leo Regan: It is 3am,here about 75 miles north of the Mediterranean, and Buster has just belted one out, for the lead.
  • (20) Republican hopefuls in the 2012 presidential election are beating the war drums too, sensing that Iran is a bunker-buster issue that could penetrate Obama's strong record on national security.

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