dust

Related to dust: dust bowl, angel dust, Dust mites

dust

1. noun, informal A disturbance or commotion. The supervisor is going to kick up a dust if he finds out about this. There's a lot of police activity around here lately. We should wait for the dust to settle before we start dealing again.
2. noun, slang Any powdered illicit drug, especially cocaine. Here's $50. See if you can score us some dust for the party tonight.
3. verb, slang To murder (someone). He started talking smack, so I pulled out my Glock and dusted the fool.
4. verb, slang To defeat (someone) handily or thoroughly in a competition, especially a race. The high school senior dusted the rest of the competition in today's 400m dash.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dust

1. in. to leave; to depart. They dusted out of there at about midnight.
2. tv. to defeat someone; to win out over someone. We dusted the other team, eighty-seven to fifty-four.
3. tv. to kill someone. (Underworld.) The gang set out to dust the witnesses but got only one of them.
4. n. fine tobacco for rolling cigarettes. (Prisons.) How about trading a little dust for this candy bar?
5. n. a powdered drug: heroin, phencyclidine (PCP), cocaine; fine cannabis. (Drugs.) It’s the dust that can really do you damage.
6. tv. to add a powdered drug to the end of a (tobacco or cannabis) cigarette. (Drugs.) Pete dusted one, then lit it up.
7. n. worthless matter. John said that Frank was going to be dust if Mr. Gutman ever heard about what happened.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) dry as dust
  • after the dust has settled
  • after the dust settles
  • after/when the dust settles
  • angel dust
  • ashes to ashes, dust to dust
  • be done and dusted
  • be eating (one's) dust
  • be eating (someone's) dust
  • bite the dust
  • bite the dust, to
  • budget dust
  • catch dust
  • charge it to the dust and let the rain settle it
  • collect dust
  • corral dust
  • cut the dust
  • done and dusted
  • dry as dust
  • dry-as-dust
  • dust
  • dust (one's) pants
  • dust and ashes
  • dust bunny
  • dust kitten
  • dust mouse
  • dust of angels
  • dust off
  • dust off the batter
  • dust out
  • dust pants
  • dust someone off
  • dust someone’s pants
  • dust up
  • dust-up
  • eat (someone's) dust
  • eat someone's dust
  • gather dust
  • heaven dust
  • hit the sawdust trail
  • in the dust
  • in the dust, leave someone
  • joy dust
  • joy flakes
  • kick up a dust
  • kiss the dust
  • leave (someone or something) in the dust
  • leave somebody/something in the dust
  • let the dust settle
  • lick the dust
  • like gold dust
  • make the dust fly
  • not see (one) for dust
  • not see somebody for dust
  • not see someone for dust
  • once the dust has settled
  • raise a dust
  • shake the dust from (one's) feet
  • shake the dust from one's feet
  • shake the dust from one's feet, to
  • shake the dust of (something or some place) from (one's) feet
  • shake the dust of somewhere from your feet
  • shake the dust off (one's) feet
  • shake the dust off your feet
  • the dust settles
  • throw dust in (one's) eyes
  • throw dust in (one's) face
  • throw dust in someone's eyes
  • throw dust in someone's eyes, to
  • turn to dust
  • wait for the dust to settle
  • watch my dust
  • when the dust has settled
  • when the dust settles
References in classic literature
So much as they could see of the road Londonward between the houses to the right was a tumultuous stream of dirty, hurrying people, pent in between the villas on either side; the black heads, the crowded forms, grew into distinct- ness as they rushed towards the corner, hurried past, and merged their individuality again in a receding multitude that was swallowed up at last in a cloud of dust.
Eternity!" His voice was hoarse and very loud so that my brother could hear him long after he was lost to sight in the dust. Some of the people who crowded in the carts whipped stupidly at their horses and quarrelled with other drivers; some sat motionless, staring at nothing with miserable eyes; some gnawed their hands with thirst, or lay prostrate in the bottoms of their conveyances.
There were sad, haggard women tramping by, well dressed, with children that cried and stumbled, their dainty clothes smothered in dust, their weary faces smeared with tears.
The heat and dust had already been at work upon this multitude.
My brother saw dimly through the dust that two men lifted out something on a white stretcher and put it gently on the grass beneath the privet hedge.
Before he could get to it, he heard a scream under the wheels, and saw through the dust the rim passing over the poor wretch's back.
War Of The Worlds
In spite of splitting headaches he would stagger down to the plant and take up his stand once more, and begin to shovel in the blinding clouds of dust. And so at the end of the week he was a fertilizer man for life--he was able to eat again, and though his head never stopped aching, it ceased to be so bad that he could not work.
Jungle
They did so, and placed themselves on a rising ground from which the two droves that Don Quixote made armies of might have been plainly seen if the clouds of dust they raised had not obscured them and blinded the sight; nevertheless, seeing in his imagination what he did not see and what did not exist, he began thus in a loud voice:
Don Quixote
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