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breaker-up

breaker-up noun: someone who breaks something up (in various senses).

Noun

breaker-up (plural breakers-up)

  1. Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).
    • Clearly, it cannot be consistently maintained that social workers are in all cases both insensitive breakers-up of families and ineffectual bystanders.1991, Bob Franklin, Nigel Parton, editors, Social Work, the Media, and Public Relations, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 77

Forms of breaker-up

pluralbreakers-up

Origin of breaker-up

From break up + -er.

Questions about breaker-up

What does breaker-up mean?
Breaker-up means someone who breaks something up (in various senses).
What part of speech is breaker-up?
Breaker-up is a noun.
What is the plural of breaker-up?
The plural of breaker-up is breakers-up.

Words near breaker-up in the dictionary

  1. breaker boys
  2. Breaker Point
  3. breaker's yard
  4. breaker-inner
  5. breaker-inners
  6. breaker-up
  7. breakerless
  8. breakerman
  9. breakermen
  10. breakers
  11. breakers' yards

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