spring breaker

noun

Someone on vacation during spring break.

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Meanings

nounspring breaker (plural spring breakers)

plural spring breakers

  1. Someone on vacation during spring break.

    How much does Miami Beach want spring breakers to know they aren’t welcome? Enough to create an ad for a fake reality show demonstrating just how little fun visitors looking for debauchery will have.

    2025 February 5, Joseph Bernstein, “Can a Fake Reality Show Keep Spring Breakers Away From Miami Beach?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin

From spring break + -er.

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APA

spring breaker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spring%20breaker

MLA

“spring breaker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spring%20breaker. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spring breaker,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spring%20breaker.

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