breaker-up

English

Etymology

From break up +‎ -er.

Noun

breaker-up (plural breakers-up)

1. Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).
   • 1991, Bob Franklin, Nigel Parton, editors, Social Work, the Media, and Public Relations, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 77:

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

References

• “breaker-up, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.