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broke on

broke on is the simple past 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 broke on

What is broke on the simple past of?
Broke on is the simple past of break on.

Words near broke on in the dictionary

  1. broke it to
  2. broke loose
  3. broke luck
  4. broke new ground
  5. broke off
  6. broke on
  7. broke on the wheel
  8. broke one off
  9. broke one's ass
  10. broke one's back
  11. broke one's duck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: broke 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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