Break out

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

An escape from prison..

Definitions by Sense

1. An escape from prison.
2. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
3. (aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
4. An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
5. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
6. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
7. (uncountable, video games) A style of video game that involves moving a paddle to deflect a ball into a wall of bricks to eliminate them one by one.
8. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success.

Example Sentences

But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.

[…] a "breakout" game where a ball is bounced off a bar at the bottom of the screen up to a wall of bricks. Each time the ball strikes a brick it is eliminated and points are awarded.

[…] a breakout game in Greenfoot […] In breakout the user hits a ball with a paddle into bricks […]

[…] a breakout game clone on the left, with rectangular bricks.

[…] a breakout game which is based on a 1970's arcade game, where a player character moves a paddle on the lower part of the game screen in order to break bricks on the upper part of the game screen using a ball that may bounce back […]

Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.

breakout box; breakout cable

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