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break dance en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of breakdance.
    alt of breakdance
    • On May 6 the same year they held the first break dance competition in Beijing. Many parents have changed their attitude towards the youngsters doing break dances. 1990, Women of China, page 14:
    • Even though a systematic warm-up exists for ballet in the form of the barre, break dance does not have an equivalent. 2013, Eric N. Franklin, Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance:
    • The advent of rap dance is where the supposedly predominantly male performance characteristic of waack and break dance shifted to include women. 2007, Carla Stalling Huntington, Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages, page 40:
    • When I was invited to lead the bride in the traditional dance I, for some reason, thought it would be amusing to do a break dance in the middle of the floor. 2012, Bradley Wiggins, In Pursuit of Glory: The Autobiography:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
break dances Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (1)

es break dance (noun)

break dance en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of breakdance.
    alt of breakdance
    • They originally audition to break dance until one of them told Diane he hurt his foot a week ago and his foot might still be swollen, so they went home to get their trumpets, now they want to audition to play the trumpets. 2013, Doris Miller, DIANE D: The Musical Drama, page 320:
    • My flesh even knows how to break dance, it's so good at winning the skirmish. 2010, Lisa Samson, Club Sandwich, page 51:
    • A teenage girl break dances in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn while her dad fiddles with the mountain bikes on the roof of their SUV. 2003 -, Greg Gordon, Landscape of desire:

Forms

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break dancing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
break dances Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
break danced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
break danced Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (1)

es bailar break dance (verb)