breaker
/ˈbɹeɪkə/US/ˈbɹeɪkɚ/
breaker noun: something that breaks (something else). Also the ellipsis of shipbreaker.
Noun (1)
breaker (plural 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
- A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today.
- 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.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 53, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, pages 279–280
- And then went down to the ship,
Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I
- A breakdancer.
- A user of CB radio.
- Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.2015, Dave Wise, Stuart Wise, Like A Summer With A Thousand Julys
Interjection
breaker
- Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
- breaker one nine
- Breaker to the Bandit1977, Smokey and the Bandit, spoken by Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason)
Noun (2)
breaker (plural 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.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC
Also used as
breaker is also the ellipsis of shipbreaker.
breaker is also the ellipsis of car breaker.
breaker is also the ellipsis of horsebreaker.
breaker is also the ellipsis of circuit breaker.
breaker meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
breaker in Marathi
- something that breaks
- तोडणारा toḍṇārā, तोडणारे toḍṇāre, तोडणारी toḍṇārī
- machine for breaking rocks or coal
- भंजक bhañjak
breaker in Urdu
- بریکر, توڑنے والا
breaker in Bengali
- ব্রেকার
breaker in Telugu
- బ్రేకర్
More languagesFewer languages
- breaker in Malayalam
- ബ്രേക്കർ
- breaker in Kannada
- ಬ್ರೇಕರ್, ಬ್ರೇಕ್ ಮಾಡುವವನು
- breaker in Punjabi
- ਬਰੇਕਰ, ਬ੍ਰੇਕਰ, ਤੋਡ਼ਨ ਵਾਲਾ
- breaker in Gujarati
- બ્રેકર
- breaker in Odia
- ବ୍ରେକର୍, ବ୍ରେକର
- breaker in Sanskrit
- दर्मन् darman
- breaker in Nepali
- ब्रेकर
Examples of breaker in a sentence
- The circuit breaker keeps tripping because there's a short in the wiring.
- Great George was having behavioral problems, so his master sent him to a slave breaker.
- A typical breaker bar is a nonratcheting tool.
Synonyms of breaker
Forms of breaker
| plural | breakers |
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Origin of breaker
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.
Words formed from breaker
- 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
Phrases with breaker
Words that rhyme with breaker
6 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about breaker
- What does breaker mean?
- Breaker means something that breaks (something else).
- What is breaker in Marathi?
- Breaker in Marathi is तोडणारा (toḍṇārā), तोडणारे (toḍṇāre), तोडणारी (toḍṇārī). See Breaker meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is breaker?
- Breaker can be a noun or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce breaker?
- Breaker is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪkə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of breaker?
- The plural of breaker is breakers.
Words near breaker in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: breaker (page history and authors); breaker (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breaker (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breaker (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breaker (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breaker (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breaker (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breaker (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breaker (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breaker (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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