breaker-up

noun

Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).

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Meanings

nounbreaker-up (plural breakers-up)

plural breakers-up

  1. Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).

    Clearly, it cannot be consistently maintained that social workers are in all cases both insensitive breakers-up of families and ineffectual bystanders.

    1991, Bob Franklin, Nigel Parton, editors, Social Work, the Media, and Public Relations, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 77

Origin

From break up + -er.

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APA

breaker-up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breaker-up

MLA

“breaker-up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breaker-up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “breaker-up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breaker-up.

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