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broken on

broken on is the past participle 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 broken on

What is broken on the past participle of?
Broken on is the past participle of break on.

Words near broken on in the dictionary

  1. broken man
  2. broken men
  3. broken number
  4. broken numbers
  5. broken off
  6. broken on
  7. broken on the wheel
  8. broken one off
  9. broken one's ass
  10. broken one's back
  11. broken one's duck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: broken 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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