breaker

Plural: breakers

Noun

• A person or thing that breaks something.
• a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
• waves breaking on the shore
• a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
• Something that breaks (something else).
• A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
• The building in which such a machine is placed.
• A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
• Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
• A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
• Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
• A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
• Ellipsis of horsebreaker.
• A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
• A breakdancer.
• A user of CB radio.
• Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
• A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.

Intj

• Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.

Examples

• a breaker of men's souls
• A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today.
• at the coal breaker
• breaker one nine
• breaker panel
• He was a tie-breaker, a heart-breaker, and a player of BREAKER.

Synonyms

breakers, circuit breaker, ledgeman, surf, ;, B-boy, B-girl, breaker's yard, destroyer, knacker, more at wreck yard, scrapper, wrecker

Related Words

spring breaker