Usually means: Ending a romantic relationship permanently.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word break-up:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. break-up, break-up: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Break-Up, Break-up, break-up: Wordnik
  3. break-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. break-up: Wiktionary
  5. Break-up: Dictionary.com
  6. Break-Up, Break-up, The Break-Up, The Break-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Break-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. break-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. break-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. break-up: FreeDictionary.org
  11. break-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Break-up)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of breakup [The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.]

Similar:
crack-up, strike-breaking, strike breaking, falling-out, wipe-out, shake-up, word-break, cave-in, wordbreak, clean-up, more...

Opposite:
reconciliation, reunion, patch-up

Types:
messy, amicable, sudden, gradual, deafening silence, more...

Phrases:
break-up value, The Break-Up, Break-up of the Beatles, Tear break-up time, more...



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Similar:
crack-up, strike-breaking, strike breaking, falling-out, wipe-out, shake-up, word-break, cave-in, wordbreak, clean-up, more...

Opposite:
reconciliation, reunion, patch-up

Types:
messy, amicable, sudden, gradual, deafening silence, more...

Phrases:
break-up value, The Break-Up, Break-up of the Beatles, Tear break-up time, more...



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