(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.
Hunter
Definition:
(n.) One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
(n.) A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.
(n.) A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
(n.) One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.
(n.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
(n.) A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
Example Sentences:
(1) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(2) In rat brain membranes, binding of BHSCYII and of the relatively unselective radioligand [125I]-Bolton-Hunter eledoisin (BHELE) was saturable, reversible and to an NK3 site.
(3) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
(4) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
(5) Thus, in pregnancies with Hunter-affected fetuses, enzyme levels did not change in the serum of heterozygous mothers until abortion was performed, while in nonaffected fetuses, ISS increased usually very early in pregnancy--as early as the 6th-12th week.
(6) They are standout talents of their generation and will provide a remarkable conclusion to what we all hope will be an incredible evening, with all profits benefiting Scotland’s children’s charities.” Hunter also plans to set aside some seats at the event for local young people.
(7) Subsequent prenatal analyses suggested heterozygosity for the X-linked Hunter syndrome, and this was confirmed by clonal analysis of fibroblasts of the child after birth.
(8) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(9) We have developed a strategy to select clones isolating the other derivative avoiding fastidious and time consuming technics, mainly based on immunofluorescent screening using MIC 2 and MIC 5 antigenic markers and we have succeeded in isolating in a rodent context the two X;5 translocated derivative chromosomes of a female patient with Hunter syndrome.
(10) In homogenates of guinea pig lung, binding of 125I-Bolton-Hunter-labeled substance P (BHSP), Bolton-Hunter-labeled eledoisin (BHELE), and [125I]iodohistidyl neurokinin A (INKA) was investigated.
(11) Maryann Hunter, a deputy director with responsibility for regulation of foreign banking organisations, declined to tell a Senate judiciary committee hearing if, or when, the Fed received the data leak.
(12) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(13) Blackburn Hunter said that the cumulative impact of those policies meant that Scottish students doing a typical four year Scottish university course would end up owing more than £20,000, while the poorest faced the heaviest debts.
(14) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(15) Hunter's perforator is a vein which joins the great saphenous vein with the femoral vein by passing through the aponeurosis of the adductor (Hunter's) canal, more or less at the junction of the lower and middle thirds of the thigh.
(16) One method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards shot by hunters (n = 2,859) and the other method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards caught in duck traps (n = 865).
(17) This 'bacterial beta 2M', radiolabeled with Bolton-Hunter reagent, was able to exchange into papain-solubilized HLA-B7, as determined by Sephadex G-75 chromatography and immune precipitation, indicating that bacterial beta 2M could complex with the heavy chain of HLA-B7.
(18) A modified method is described for the preparation of stable, high specific activity radioiodinated cholecystokinin (CCK) by its conjugation to 125I-Bolton Hunter reagent (125I-BH).
(19) Alex Salmond describes his own renewable energy vision as "the greatest leap forward since the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture 10,000 years ago".
(20) Nathan Tinkler’s Hunter Sports Group has confirmed it will sell the Newcastle Jets and its A-League licence.