Buster
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'''Buster''' may refer to:
===In film and television===
* [[Buster (film)|''Buster'' (film)]], a film starring Phil Collins
** [[Buster (soundtrack)|''Buster'' (soundtrack)]], the soundtrack to the film
* ''[[Busters verden]]'', a Danish television series and movie by Bille August
** "Buster", theme song for ''Busters verden'' by [[Nanna Lüders Jensen]]
* [[Price Busters TV]], a shopping channel based in the UK who has a mascot that is a monkey called Buster
* [[Buster Bluth]], a character from ''Arrested Development''
* [[List of additional MythBusters cast members#Buster|Buster]], a crash test dummy used as a test subject on ''MythBusters''
* [[Buster Baxter]], frequently identified as "Buster the Bunny", star of ''Postcards from Buster'' and originally from the show ''Arthur''
===In music===
*''[[Little Busters]]'', an album by Japanese rock band The Pillows
===In cartoons and computer games===
*[[Buster (comic)|''Buster'' (comic)]], a British comic
*[[Buster (sport comic)|''Buster'' (sport comic)]], a Swedish comic
*[[Buster Bunny]], a character from ''Tiny Toon Adventures''
* Buster, a puppy owned by Darby in ''[[My Friends Tigger & Pooh]]''
* Buster, the general term for various kinds of weapons in the ''[[Mega Man (series)|Mega Man]]'' universes
===People by the name of Buster===
*[[Buster Edwards]], member of the gang that perpetrated the Great Train Robbery
*[[Buster Keaton]], an American actor from the silent film era
*[[Buster Martin]], French centenarian, valet and hopeful London Marathon participant
*[[Buster Merryfield]], English actor; most famous for his portrayal of 'Uncle' Albert Trotter in the sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses''
*Buster Meikle, singer and guitarist, formerly with [[Unit 4 + 2]] and Buster & Bill
*[[Buster Olney]], current ESPN journalist
* Buster Poindexter, a pseudonym of [[David Johansen]]
*Buster ([[Jeffrey Wayne Cole]]), a star of gay pornographic films
===Other===
*[[Buster (dog)]], a dog belonging to Roy Hattersley, who has published his diaries (ghost written by Hattersley)
*Buster, a dog owned by [[Paul O'Grady]]
*Buster, a derogatory tern for a person who financially is unable to support themselves but assumes a financially secure façade
*Buster, a derogatory term for a person who pretends to be [[gang]] affiliated
*Buster, a pratfall, often performed in comic [[silent film]]s
*Buster, a [[fighter pilot]] [[brevity code]] signaling an aircraft to use maximum continuous power
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It has two possible etymologies:-
# [[Agent (grammar)|Agent]] noun of the verb [[bust]].
# First used as a [[vocative]], from [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''busté'', a [[dialect]] form of ''usted'' = "you".
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