Usually means: End of a romantic relationship.
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  1. breakup: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. breakup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breakup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breakup: Vocabulary.com
  5. Breakup, breakup: Wordnik
  6. breakup: Wiktionary
  7. breakup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. breakup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. breakup: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. breakup: Dictionary.com
  11. breakup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Breakup, The Breakup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. breakup: Rhymezone
  14. breakup: Free Dictionary
  15. breakup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. breakup: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. breakup: Legal dictionary
  2. breakup: Financial dictionary

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  1. breakup: Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
noun:  The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
noun:  A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
noun:  (Alaska and northern Canada, seasons, time) The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.

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