Buster

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Buster can mean one of several things:

• A USA term of address: see wiktionary:buster.
• Buster (comic), a British comic.
• Buster (sport comic), a Swedish comic.
• Price Busters TV, a shopping channel based in the UK who has a mascot that is a monkey called Buster.
• Buster (film), a movie starring Phil Collins as the real-life Buster Edwards.
• Buster Bluth, a character from Arrested Development .
• Buster, a car test dummy used as a test subject on Mythbusters
• Buster, a dog belonging to Roy Hattersley, who has published his diaries (ghost written by Hattersley).
• Similarly, Buster is a dog owned by Paul O'Grady.
• Buster (Jeffrey Wayne Cole), a star of gay pornographic films.
• Buster is the general term for various kinds of weapons in the Mega Man universes.
• Buster Baxter, frequently identified as "Buster the Bunny", star of Postcards from Buster and originally from the show Arthur.
• Buster Bunny, a character from Tiny Toon Adventures.
• Buster Poindexter, a pseudonym of David Johansen.
• Buster, a derogatory term for a person who pretends they are gang affiliated.
• Buster Meikle, singer and guitarist, formerly with Unit Four Plus Two and Buster & Bill.
• Buster Merryfield, English actor; most famous for his portrayal of 'Uncle' Albert Trotter in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
• Buster Keaton, an American actor from the silent film era.
• Buster the crash test dummy, from the popular science television show, MythBusters.
• Buster Boats, a Finnish manufacturer of high quality aluminum boats. The company is owned by Inha Works Ltd, which is a part of the Fiskars-group.
• LITTLE BUSTERS, an album of Japanese rock band The Pillows.
• A pratfall, often performed in comic silent movies

It has two possible etymologies:-

1. Agent noun of the verb bust.
2. First used as a vocative, from Spanish busté, a dialect form of usted = "you".