Usually means: Device that interrupts electrical circuit flow.
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  1. breaker: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. breaker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breaker, breaker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breaker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breaker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Breaker, breaker: Wordnik
  7. -breaker, breaker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. breaker: Wiktionary
  9. breaker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. breaker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. breaker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. breaker: Dictionary.com
  13. breaker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Breaker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. breaker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. breaker: Rhymezone
  18. Breaker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. breaker: Free Dictionary
  20. breaker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. breaker: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. breaker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. breaker: Encyclopedia

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  1. breaker: Idioms

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  1. breaker, breaker, breaker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Breaker: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  Something that breaks (something else).
noun:  A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
noun:  The building in which such a machine is placed.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) 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
noun:  (colloquial) A breakdancer.
noun:  (US, dated) A user of CB radio.
noun:  A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
noun:  (often plural) A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard. [One who works in shipbreaking.]
noun:  (primarily plural) Ellipsis of shipbreaker; a shipbreaking company or its yard. [One who works in shipbreaking.]
noun:  (primarily plural) Ellipsis of car breaker; a car breaking company or its yard. [(UK, Commonwealth) One who works in car breaking.]
noun:  Ellipsis of horsebreaker. [One who trains, or breaks in, horses.]
noun:  (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker. [(electricity) An electrical switch capable of opening and closing an electrical circuit in all operating conditions, including fault situations.]

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