Busters

[DrFoxtrot]

DP reckons that the word ‘busters’ was in common use as a slang term for breasts during the 70s/80s. He recalls his aunt finding Ghostbusters hilarious due to this.
I don’t agree that it was a common term, I’m sure I would have heard older family members use it. I think it was probably regional, he’s from Wales.
Was ‘busters’ a common term? Is it regional? Perhaps so regional that it’s confined to his family 😆

Never heard it, but have heard “bust”, or “bustage” in dressmaking.

Ha ha! Yes it was! My mum used to use the term in the 80s! Maybe it was a regional thing, I'm from Yorkshire?

Yep I was in Primary school late 70s/early 80s & busters was definitely used as a term for breasts. Don’t recall it being used in Secondary school though. This was in North East England.

I’m from South Wales, was a 70s child, teenager in the 80s and I’ve never heard them called Busters. Bust, yes as in ‘she’s got a big bust’ but not busters.
i vaguely remember my mum’s friend calling them her Bristols though 😂

Never heard busters used that way in the south west.

Ha I'd forgotten about that word! It was definitely used, I remember my nan saying it! North West in the 80s.

Busters was definitely a slang term for Bristols at my primary school in Leeds.

Thanks all 😆 now I know he’s not imagined it

I definitely remember it being used - also Yorkshire