spring break

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spring break (countable and uncountable, plural spring breaks)

  1. A time of vacation from school that occurs during the spring.
    • 2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Boris Feldman, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
      “We are on the edge of an AI surge that will make the dotcom boom look like spring break,” says Boris Feldman, co-head of Freshfield's global tech practice, who advises multiple “magnificent seven” tech companies.
  2. (by extension) The week of vacation from school that occurs during the winter-spring semester, which does not necessarily fall within the official season of spring.

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