Sod' - bust - er (n) 1. a person living on the prairie of 19th century America who makes a living farming dry ground with no irrigation water in a hostile environment, totally self-reliant and self-sufficient who asks nothing from the government. Non-existent today, an extinct species. 2. A believer in freedom. 3. A Death Merchant and Drug Lord according to certain members of the Brady bunch, although this has never been verified. But who knows.