Breaker
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Breaker or breakers has the following meanings:
- Breaker (reef), a reef over which waves break;
- Circuit breaker protects equipment from an overload or short circuit
- Breaker wave, an overextended ocean surface wave that collapses as it approaches the shore
- Breaker, a breakdancer
- Breaker Morant, an Anglo-Australian soldier cum folk hero named Harry Harbord Morant
- The Breaker, a 1973 novel about him by Kit Denton
- Breaker Morant (film), film based on that novel
- Breaker (album) is an album by Accept
- The Breakers, a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island
- The Breakers (1878), the original estate at the Newport site
- The Breakers (band), Danish rock band
- Breakers Hotel, a historic hotel in Palm Beach, Florida
- "Breaker", a term used in CB radio slang
- Breaker, one involved in breaking (martial arts), breaking objects with force
- Breakers (TV series), an Australian television series that ran from 1998 to 1999.
- Breaker, a character from the G.I. Joe universe
- Breaker, a character from Custom Robo
- Breakers (Stephen King), humans with special psionic abilities in Stephen King's The Dark Tower (2004 novel)
- Breaker (nautical), a small water cask or scuttlebutt, often used in lifeboats
- Breaker is a United States Department of Agriculture carcass grade for slaughter cattle
- Breakers and Breakers Revenge, a 1996 videogame for the Neo Geo MVS Arcade system
- The Breaker, a 1998 book by Minette Walters.
- Breaker (hydraulic), a percussion hammer used for demolishing concrete structures or rocks
Breaker may also mean:
- Icebreaker, a ship that can navigate through ice
- Coal breaker is a structure that processes coal
- Ship breaker, a business involved in Ship breaking, demolishing vessels for scrap metal
- Breakers yard, also called a wrecking yard, a business which demolishes cars or other items for scrap
- Breaker Island, an island off Antacrtica
- Breaker Reef, an island of Hong Kong
- Breaker Bay, a suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand
- Breakers Stadium, an Australian stadium, located in Newcastle, New South Wales, now known as The Gardens
- Breaker bar, a tool used to increase the torque of a socket wrench
- Breaker-grozier pliers, pliers used by glaziers for breaking and finishing small glass pieces
- Sword breaker, a Middle Age weapon
- Vacuum breaker, a simple backflow preventer
- Contact breaker, an electrical switch
- Braid-breaker, a filter that prevents television interference (TVI)
- Breaker! Breaker!, a 1977 film starring Chuck Norris
- Breaker 1/9, a 1992 single by Common
- Breaker High, a TV series that ran from 1997 to 1998, set at a high school located on a cruise ship, featuring Ryan Gosling
- Ankle breaker, slang term for a basketball move
- Breaker a lager beer from the United Kingdom.
[edit] Sports teams
- British Columbia Breakers, an ice hockey team in the National Women's Hockey League
- Boston Breakers, a professional soccer team in the Women's United Soccer Association
- Long Beach Breakers, a minor league baseball team in Long Beach, California
- New Zealand Breakers, a basketball team in the Australian National Basketball League
- North Bay Breakers, an American soccer team in Santa Rosa, California
- Portland Breakers, an American Football team in the United States Football League during the mid 1980s
- Santa Cruz County Breakers, an American soccer team
- Seattle City Breakers a former dance group from Seattle, Washington