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breaking on

breaking on is the present participle and gerund of break on.

Meaning of break on

Verb

break on (third-person singular simple present breaks on, present participle breaking on, simple past broke on, past participle broken on)

  1. (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To humiliate (someone); to scold or demean (someone) in public.

Questions about breaking on

What is breaking on the present participle and gerund of?
Breaking on is the present participle and gerund of break on.

Words near breaking on in the dictionary

  1. breaking luck
  2. breaking new ground
  3. breaking news
  4. breaking of the waters
  5. breaking off
  6. breaking on
  7. breaking on the wheel
  8. breaking one off
  9. breaking one's ass
  10. breaking one's back
  11. breaking one's duck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breaking on (page history and authors); break on (page history and authors). 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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