Usually means: Escape from a confined space.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. break out: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. break out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. break out: Vocabulary.com
  5. Break-Out, Break-out, break-out: Wordnik
  6. break out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. break out: Wiktionary
  8. break out: Dictionary.com
  9. Break Out (Pointer Sisters album), Break Out (Soulive album), Break Out (film), Break Out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. break out: Free Dictionary
  11. break out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. break-out, break out: Dictionary/thesaurus
  13. Break out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. break out: Rhymezone

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break out: Legal dictionary
  2. break out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. break out: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Extreme Martial Arts Glosary (No longer online)
  2. Break-out: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (break out)

verb:  (intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. Notionally, to escape by breaking.
verb:  (transitive) To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To bring out from storage, use, or present.
verb:  (transitive) To separate (something) from a bundle.
verb:  (transitive) To take or force out by breaking.
verb:  (intransitive) To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
verb:  (intransitive, of a person) To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
verb:  (especially recording industry, intransitive) (Of a record, product, or company): to achieve widespread success.
verb:  (obsolete, New England) To remove snow from a road or sidewalk.

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