Breaker

//ˈbɹeɪkɚ// intj, noun, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio. US, dated

    "breaker one nine"

Noun
  1. 1
    Something that breaks (something else).

    "a breaker of men's souls"

  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded wordnet
  4. 4
    A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
  5. 5
    waves breaking on the shore wordnet
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  1. 6
    The building in which such a machine is placed.

    "at the coal breaker"

  2. 7
    a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone wordnet
  3. 8
    A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
  4. 9
    A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural
  5. 10
    A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of horsebreaker. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, often, plural

    "A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber"

  6. 11
    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 in-plural

    "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."

  7. 12
    A breakdancer. colloquial
  8. 13
    A user of CB radio. US, dated

    "Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth."

  9. 14
    Ellipsis of circuit breaker. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "breaker panel"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.

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