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  • breast
    prep. /bres/ [from abreast of] next to; by: 1936 I wait till he get down brest o' Missa Franklin house
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  • breast
    n. /bres/ [Car.; OED properly said of women, but sometimes of the lower animals] (of animals) udder. (Black)
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  • break-up
    [from broke break + hypercorrection of Eng. past participle] adj. broken-down: Down so by that old break-up house (Long). (Gen.)
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  • break the seal
    [by analogy with packaging] v. phr. to have sexual intercourse with a virgin. (Black)
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  • break the reef
    v. phr. to develop breasts. (Andros, Mayag.)
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  • break out
    v.t. to break open (a shell to remove the shellfish): 1978 Break out and clean whelks (Higgs 31). (Gen.)
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  • break night rest
    [W Car.] v. phr. to get up in the middle of the night. (Nassau)
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  • breaker
    [OED nautical idem] n. a barrel or cask: We had to go to Raccoon Cay. . . supply water in
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  • break (2)
    adj. [cf. Gul. brek idem (Parsons 1923: 176); OED to become bankrupt ... now less usual; cf. also BROKE break—and
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  • break (1), bruck
    v.t. [cf. BROKE] to cook (dried peas or beans) until soft or split. (Black) —v.i. (of dried peas or beans)
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