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breaker¹
- /ˈbɹeɪkə/ UK
- /ˈbɹeɪkɚ/ US
Rhymes with -eɪkə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
noun breakers
- Something that breaks (something else). a breaker of men's souls
- A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
- The building in which such a machine is placed. at the coal breaker
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Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
Similar: scrapper, wrecker, knacker, breaker's yard, more at wreck yard
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Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
Similar: scrapper, wrecker, knacker, breaker's yard, more at wreck yard
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Ellipsis of horsebreaker
A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber
Similar: scrapper, wrecker, knacker, breaker's yard, more at wreck yard
- 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 Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish[…]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.
- A breakdancer.
- A user of CB radio. Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.
- Ellipsis of circuit breaker breaker panel
interjection
- Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio. breaker one nine
breaker²
Where it comes from
Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.
noun breakers
- A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck. Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: surf, ledgeman, rupture, splitter, heist, separator, junkyard, divider, delimiter, cutter, differential, tab, switch, spacer, hello, tripped
Translations
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noun small cask of water in case of shipwreck
| Русский | анкеро́к ankerók |
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noun something that breaks
| 日本語 | 破壊者 hakaisha |
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| Français | casseur |
| Deutsch | Kaputtmacher |
| Русский | разруши́тель razrušítelʹ, уничтожи́тель uničtožítelʹ |
noun machine for breaking rocks or coal
| 日本語 | 破砕機 hasaiki |
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| Français | concasseuse |
| Deutsch | Brecher |
| Română | concasor |
| Русский | дроби́лка drobílka |
noun building containing such a machine
| Русский | дроби́лка drobílka |
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title = {breaker},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/breaker},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
