breakout

noun breakouts

1. countable, uncountable An escape from prison.
2. countable, uncountable An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
3. countable, uncountable The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
4. countable, uncountable An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.). But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.
5. countable, uncountable A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
6. countable, uncountable A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
7. uncountable A style of video game that involves moving a paddle to deflect a ball into a wall of bricks to eliminate them one by one. […] a "breakout" game where a ball is bounced off a bar at the bottom of the screen up to a wall of bricks. Each time the ball strikes a brick it is eliminated and points are awarded.

Similar: jailbreak, prison break

adjective

1. not comparable Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success. Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.
2. attributive, not comparable Splitting a signal into several signals. breakout box; breakout cable