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US
/ˈbɹeɪkɝ/
]
[ UK /bɹˈeɪkɐ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈeɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
- a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
- waves breaking on the shore
How To Use breaker In A Sentence
- Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket. Times, Sunday Times
- People come up to me all of the time and as a conversation ice-breaker often say, ‘You're the food editor.’
- When this breaker crashed onto the beach of popular culture, the legend was made and the grave dug, but the music his legacy has inspired is insipid and dull.
- Hunkin's page coincided with our acquisition of this book by the delightfully-named Shifty Burke, Memoirs of a safe-breaker, published by Arthur Baker Ltd in 1966.
- But now that the sun was fully out, he could see beyond the breakers, way beyond the waves to the flat water at the back.
- Innocent have-a-go hero in cells for ten hours - As a former traffic warden and store detective with two police commendations to her name, Wendy Challis-Jones is all too familiar with tackling lawbreakers. Waterloo Sunset « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- But this is an idle boast if police are forced to abandon one set of law breakers to chase after another.
- Tall and slim, he has on a tan windbreaker over a plaid shirt with brown slacks, brown moccasins.
- _quebrahacha_, or "axe-breaker," so named from the hardness of its wood. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
- They're the groundbreakers and the pathfinders.
