English Explanatory Dictionary

breaker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Something that breaks (something else).
  2. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
  3. The building in which such a machine is placed.
  4. A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
  5. Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
  6. Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
  7. Ellipsis of horsebreaker.
  8. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
  9. A breakdancer.
  10. A user of CB radio.
  11. Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
intj
  1. Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
noun
  1. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɹeɪkə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-breaker.wav brāʹkər /ˈbɹeɪkɚ/

Word forms

breaker breakers

Etymology

From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.

Synonyms

destroyer wrecker scrapper knacker breaker's yard more at wreck yard B-boy B-girl

Related words

spring breaker

Derived words

backbreaker ball-breaker bead breaker bitch breaker bladebreaker breaker bar breaker boy breaker-inner breakerless breaker's yard breaker-up brick breaker circuit breaker circuit-breaker codebreaker combo breaker deal breaker faithbreaker gaolbreaker groundbreaker heart breaker heartbreaker homebreaker horse-breaker horsebreaker housebreaker house-breaker house breaker ice-breaker icebreaker ice breaker jailbreaker jaw-breaker jawbreaker law-breaker lawbreaker leg breaker leg-breaker matchbreaker middlebreaker nutbreaker oathbreaker pathbreaker peacebreaker prison breaker rulebreaker Sabbath-breaker safebreaker shipbreaker shopbreaker slave breaker stonebreaker strawbreaker strikebreaker sword-breaker tie-breaker tie breaker tiebreaker trailbreaker trucebreaker

Translations

Bulgarian: буренце Polish: baryłka ratunkowa Russian: анкеро́к
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