Usually means: Address audience, ignore theatrical boundary.
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  1. break the fourth wall: Wiktionary
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  1. Break the fourth wall: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (break the fourth wall)

verb:  (idiomatic, fiction) To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader.

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