breakdancer

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See also: break-dancer, break dancer, and Breakdancer

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Etymology

From breakdance +‎ -er.

Noun

breakdancer (plural breakdancers)

  1. One who breakdances.
    • 1984 June 21, UPI, “AROUND THE NATION; Breakdancing Fad Held To Risk Serious Injury”, in The New York Times‎:
      Dr. Herbert Schwartz, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Chicago Hospital, said he had treated five breakdancers who broke arms trying to support their body weight by standing on one hand.
    • 1998 June 7, Lola Ogunnaike, “NOTICED; Breakdancing Regains Its Footing”, in The New York Times‎:
      Such scenes were common 15 years ago, when no street corner or subway platform was safe from bandanna-wearing breakdancers and their behemoth boom boxes.
    • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
      If the family had owned an allotment or even the smallest patch of grass anywhere on the estate they could call their own, Zoe would have dug a little grave with a spoon, lowered her little friend into the hole and made a headstone with a lolly stick.
      Gingernut,
      Much loved Hamster,
      Expert breakdancer,
      And sometime bodypopper.
    • 2024 August 9, Mark Cooper, “Breakdancer Manizha Talash reveals ‘Free Afghan Women’ cape during Olympic performance”, in The New York Times‎:
      An Olympic refugee team breakdancer used the first breaking battle in Olympic history to deliver a message to her home country.

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