break dance

plural break dances

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of breakdance.

   Even though a systematic warm-up exists for ballet in the form of the barre, break dance does not have an equivalent.

   2013, Eric N. Franklin, Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance

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   On May 6 the same year they held the first break dance competition in Beijing. Many parents have changed their attitude towards the youngsters doing break dances.

   1990, Women of China, page 14

   The advent of rap dance is where the supposedly predominantly male performance characteristic of waack and break dance shifted to include women.

   2007, Carla Stalling Huntington, Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages, page 40

   When I was invited to lead the bride in the traditional dance I, for some reason, thought it would be amusing to do a break dance in the middle of the floor.

   2012, Bradley Wiggins, In Pursuit of Glory: The Autobiography

present singular third person break dances · participle present break dancing · participle past break danced · past break danced

1. alternativeAlternative form of breakdance.

   My flesh even knows how to break dance, it's so good at winning the skirmish.

   2010, Lisa Samson, Club Sandwich, page 51

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   A teenage girl break dances in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn while her dad fiddles with the mountain bikes on the roof of their SUV.

   2003 -, Greg Gordon, Landscape of desire

   They originally audition to break dance until one of them told Diane he hurt his foot a week ago and his foot might still be swollen, so they went home to get their trumpets, now they want to audition to play the trumpets.

   2013, Doris Miller, DIANE D: The Musical Drama, page 320