break dance

See also: breakdance

English

Noun

break dance (countable and uncountable, plural break dances)

1. Alternative form of breakdance
   • 1990, Women of China, page 14:

     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.

   • 2007, Carla Stalling Huntington, Hip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages, page 40:

     The advent of rap dance is where the supposedly predominantly male performance characteristic of waack and break dance shifted to include women.

   • 2012, Bradley Wiggins, In Pursuit of Glory: The Autobiography:

     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.

   • 2013, Eric N. Franklin, Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance:

     Even though a systematic warm-up exists for ballet in the form of the barre, break dance does not have an equivalent.

Verb

break dance (third-person singular simple present break dances, present participle break dancing, simple past and past participle break danced)

1. Alternative form of breakdance
   • 2003 -, Greg Gordon, Landscape of desire:

     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.

   • 2010, Lisa Samson, Club Sandwich, page 51:

     My flesh even knows how to break dance, it's so good at winning the skirmish.

   • 2013, Doris Miller, DIANE D: The Musical Drama, page 320:

     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.