To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.
To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?
To B-boy; to breakdance.
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.
From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). Doublet of...
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Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that
A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes