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gangbuster

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gang·bus·ter  (gngbstr)
n. Slang
A law enforcement officer who works to break up organized criminal groups.
adj. also gangbusters
Extremely successful: an experiment yielding gangbuster results; a profitable, gangbusters quarter.
Idiom:
like gangbusters Slang
With great impact, vigor, or zeal: came on like gangbusters at the start of his campaign; a career that took off like gangbusters.


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``But they were down pretty good there for five or six weeks, and they came out like gangbusters, so they have done a good job.
NEXTEL CUP TITLE JOHNSON'S FOR THE TAKING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
However, he predicts that even poison ivy's gangbuster growth will eventually hit some limit, such as available sunlight.
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I think that would be gangbusters for us," he said.
It's fast, it's coming to L.A., it's lacrosse by Davis, David / Los Angeles Business Journal
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