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rule-breaker

rule-breaker is the alternative form of rulebreaker.

Meaning of rulebreaker

Noun

rulebreaker (plural rulebreakers)

  1. One who breaks a rule.
    • That’s partly why Lena Dunham was able to introduce the topic on HBO, where she’s a known entity and a celebrated rule-breaker.2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic

Forms of rule-breaker

pluralrule-breakers

Questions about rule-breaker

What is rule-breaker the alternative form of?
Rule-breaker is the alternative form of rulebreaker.

Words near rule-breaker in the dictionary

  1. rule with a rod of iron
  2. rule-based
  3. rule-book
  4. rule-books
  5. rule-bound
  6. rule-breaker
  7. rule-follower
  8. rule-followers
  9. rule-monger
  10. rule-mongers
  11. rule-of-thumb

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