breakers

Noun

breaker (plural breakers)

1. Something that breaks (something else).
   • a breaker of men's souls

   Synonyms:

   destroyer, wrecker

2. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
3. The building in which such a machine is placed.
   • at the coal breaker
4. (in plural) 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
5. (colloquial) A breakdancer.

   Synonyms:

   B-boy, B-girl

6. (US, dated) 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

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