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Vinony

breaker

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪkə/ / /ˈbɹeɪkɚ/

intj

Etymology: From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.

  1. Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.

    “breaker one nine”

    “Breaker to the Bandit”

noun

Etymology: Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.

  1. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.

    “Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.”