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breaker-up

noun

Etymology

From break up + -er.

Definitions

  1. Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).

    • Clearly, it cannot be consistently maintained that social workers are in all cases both insensitive breakers-up of families and ineffectual bystanders.

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