brick-breaker

A form of brick breaker — A game of a genre that involves moving a paddle horizontally or vertically to deflect a ball, using the deflected ball to destroy an arrangement of bricks on the screen.

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Meanings

nounbrick-breaker (plural brick-breakers)

plural brick-breakers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of brick breaker.

    ANOTHER ‘cute’ game, this time a brick-breaker that might just […]

    2015 July 6, “Top Android games”, in The Observer, Gladstone, Qld., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24
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    At Super Icon, our first live project using Unity was a brick-breaker called ‘Brick Break Blitz’.

    2015 February 11, Richard Hill-Whittall, “Developing Our First Unity Game”, in The Indie Game Developer Handbook, Burlington, Mass.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Focal Press, →ISBN, chapter 1 (Development Tools and Resources)

    The venerable brick-breaker has existed in some form on nearly every home console and PC since the 1970s.

    2024 December 20, Bryan Finck, “Tri Breaker: Innovating on an Enjoyable Formula”, in SUPERJUMP, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2024

    Breakout Beyond is a twist on Atari's brick-breaker, keeping the same paddle-and-ball setup but having it all move sideways.

    2025 February 4, Eric Van Allen, “Breakout Beyond Puts a New Angle on Atari's Classic Brick-Breaker”, in IGN, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2025
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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