BREAKER

'Breaker' or 'breakers' has the following meanings:

★ 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

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★ ''The Breaker'', a 1973 novel about him by Kit Denton

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★ ''Breaker Morant (film)'', film based on that novel

★ ''Breaker (album)'' is an album by Accept

★ The Breakers, a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island

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★ 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

★ 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.

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Sports teams

See also

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

See also

★ Icebreaker

★ Heartbreaker

★ Windbreaker