1
: one that bursts
2
: the celestial source of an outburst of radiation (such as X-rays)
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And people, when the chest-burster happened, were getting up out of their seats and leaving the theater.
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Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
That chest-burster moment bore into my soul.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
The face huggers and chest bursters return with a vengeance in a few weeks when Alien: Romulus finally hits theaters.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
Robotic equipment removed the weapons’ fuses and bursters before the mustard agent was neutralized with hot water and mixed with a caustic solution to prevent the reaction from reversing.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
Robotic equipment removed the weapons' fuses and bursters before the mustard agent was neutralized with hot water and mixed with a caustic solution to prevent the reaction from reversing.
—CBS News, 7 July 2023
It’s the kind of game that could be a bubble-burster.
—Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
Researchers used a complex elliptic burster model of brain cell behavior to understand the synchronization.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2022
Elapsed time from face-hugger to chest-burster is down to minutes, death scenes feel like placeholders, and there’s no suspense or point to any of it.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
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Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
That chest-burster moment bore into my soul.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
The face huggers and chest bursters return with a vengeance in a few weeks when Alien: Romulus finally hits theaters.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
Robotic equipment removed the weapons’ fuses and bursters before the mustard agent was neutralized with hot water and mixed with a caustic solution to prevent the reaction from reversing.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
Robotic equipment removed the weapons' fuses and bursters before the mustard agent was neutralized with hot water and mixed with a caustic solution to prevent the reaction from reversing.
—CBS News, 7 July 2023
It’s the kind of game that could be a bubble-burster.
—Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
Researchers used a complex elliptic burster model of brain cell behavior to understand the synchronization.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2022
Elapsed time from face-hugger to chest-burster is down to minutes, death scenes feel like placeholders, and there’s no suspense or point to any of it.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
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“Burster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burster. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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