breakout
breakout noun: an escape from prison.
Noun
breakout (countable and uncountable, plural breakouts)
- An escape from prison.
- An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
- The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
- An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
- But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.1988, Thomas Goodman, Stephanie Young, Smart Face, page 115
- A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
- A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
- A style of video game that involves moving a paddle to deflect a ball into a wall of bricks to eliminate them one by one.
- […] a "breakout" game where a ball is bounced off a bar at the bottom of the screen up to a wall of bricks. Each time the ball strikes a brick it is eliminated and points are awarded.1986, Media Review, volume 10, page 97
- […] a breakout game in Greenfoot […] In breakout the user hits a ball with a paddle into bricks […]2011, Mark Guzdial, Barbara Ericson, Problem Solving with Data Structures Using Java, page 355
Adjective
breakout (not comparable)
- Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success.
- Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.2009, Lisa Iannucci, Will Smith: A Biography, page 44
- Splitting a signal into several signals.
- breakout box; breakout cable
breakout meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
breakout in Hindi
- ब्रेकआउट
breakout in Marathi
- ब्रेकआउट, ब्रेकआऊट
breakout in Urdu
- بریک آؤٹ, بریکآؤٹ
breakout in Bengali
- ব্রেকআউট
More languagesFewer languages
- breakout in Telugu
- బ్రేక్అవుట్, బ్రేక్ అవుట్
- breakout in Malayalam
- ബ്രേക്ക്ഔട്ട്
- breakout in Kannada
- ಬ್ರೇಕ್ಔಟ್, ಬ್ರೇಕ್ಅವುಟ್, ಬ್ರೇಕ್ ಔಟ್
- breakout in Punjabi
- ਬ੍ਰੇਕਆਊਟ, ਬ੍ਰੇਕਆਉਟ
- breakout in Gujarati
- બ્રેકઆઉટ, બ્રેકઆઉટ કરો
- breakout in Odia
- ବ୍ରେକଆଉଟ୍, ବ୍ରେକ୍ଆଉଟ୍
Examples of breakout in a sentence
- The officers deemed it necessary to pre-position at least three battalions in case of a breakout.
- It was deemed necessary to keep at least three battalions pre-positioned in case of a breakout.
- Ulysses the cat is the real breakout star of the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis.
Synonyms of breakout
Forms of breakout
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Origin of breakout
Deverbal from break out. The video game genre is named after Breakout, the first game of this kind, released in 1976 by Atari.
Words formed from breakout
Phrases with breakout
Questions about breakout
- What does breakout mean?
- Breakout means an escape from prison.
- What is breakout in Hindi?
- Breakout in Hindi is ब्रेकआउट. See Breakout meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is breakout?
- Breakout can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of breakout?
- The plural of breakout is breakouts.
Words near breakout in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: breakout (page history and authors); breakout (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); breakout (Odia, 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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