breakaway
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adj (English)
1. (ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)Examples: "2016, Scott Feschuk, "Counting down the most annoying in video review, by sport," sportsnet.ca, 10 July, 2016, http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/counting-annoying-video-review-sport/ In a league starved for scoring, the challenge ensures that some super-sweet breakaway goals will be overturned because a dude was three microns offside."not-comparable
2. (entertainment industry) Enjoying rapid popular success.Examples: "The New York quintet call themselves Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and their RCA debut LP is this season's breakaway disco act."; "In that season, NBC added another first-year breakaway hit, Friends."; "2016, Chris Riotta, "Rihanna's 'Anti' Has Extensive Alternative Music Career," mic.com, 11 February, 2016, https://mic.com/articles/134964/who-is-sza-artist-featured-on-rihanna-s-anti-has-extensive-alternative-music-career#.7Jn5cfh5u When Rihanna released her rebellious breakaway album Anti, it marked a definitive turning point in the singer's career."not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (cycle racing) A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.Examples: "The summit of the climb came 38km from the end of stage 14, which began in Limoux and ended in Foix in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the incident occurred as the peloton emerged into the light and passed under the banner at the top, a quarter of an hour behind a five-man breakaway."
2. (ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.Examples: "2015, Eric MacKenzie, "Canucks fall 2-1 to Oilers in OT," vancouver24hrs.ca, 18 October, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20151020145050/http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2015/10/19/canucks-fall-2-1-to-oilers-in-ot With the game tied 1-1 early in the third, Henrik got free on a breakaway and was stopped by Oilers goalie Anders Nilsson […]"
3. (boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.Examples: "2011, Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott (eds.), The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Appendix: The Great Fights, George Dixon vs. Jack Skelly (September 6, 1892), p. 262, The gong sounded almost immediately after the breakaway."
4. (Australia) A stampede of animals.Australia
5. (Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.Examples: "1893, The Argus, 29 April, 1893, p. 4, col. 4, cited in Edward Ellis Morris, Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages, 1898, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900231.txt The smartest stock horse that ever brought his rider up within whip distance of a breakaway or dodged the horns of a sulky beast, took the chance."Australia
6. (Australia, geography) An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.Australia
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