Definitions
Etymologies
- Break + -s, third-person singular present tense conjugating suffix. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Its substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, distintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.”
“Cause they should be fine unless you are HARD on your breaks, Madrigle. "* the underlieing accusation is that i'm a speed demon and thus am HARD on my breaks* This whole dynamic makes me feel tiny in stature, and well, I just don't like asking him about it.”
“It sounds puzzling, until you realise the title breaks down as 'F. *.”
“When I'd come home over the term breaks I'd curl up for some quality TV time ... except, the commercials seemed longer and more inane than they ever had before.”
“They claim it's clear that Spears sings "F-*-*-K me" repeatedly in the song's chorus - because that's what the title breaks down as.”
“It sounds puzzling, until you realise the title breaks down as 'F.”
“With surrealism this involves, presumably, finding a way to integrate a surrealisticpresentation with one's prior conceptions of the way things are: surrealism becomes an alternative vision of the world, one that breaks from the "normal" perceptions most of us share only to portray that world just as truthfully if more obliquely.”
“One problem with using tax breaks is that tax distribution tables only take account of taxes.”
Tax Breaks vs. Subsidies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“We are the only group that doesn't fall under the minority catagory so we give/get no breaks from the government ...”
“Palin breaks the MOLD of what liberals think a liberated woman should be.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘breaks’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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Alternate spellings of something.
sxsw, completly, could of, would of, should of, mathhole, h'orderves, breaks, youse, Filthydelphia, frikkin
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for breaks.
pterodactyl http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22my+breaks+failed%22&word2=%22my+brakes+failed%22
Quotes added. Apr 2, 2013
alexz indeed bilby.
Taking your example, and extending it to a sentence form, it's clear that everyone has really been saying 'this is bulls hit'.
p.s. add quotes around phrases. :)
Apr 1, 2013
bilby Well, bullshit gets 5 million hits while bulls hit gets 110 million. Hence 'my breaks failed' passes no particular test of legitimacy I can think of courtesy of Googlefight, strict grammarian (or nay) that I am.
Apr 1, 2013
alexz "my brakes failed" versus "my breaks failed" , the strict grammarians will find Google's statistics interesting.. http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=my+brakes+failed&word2=my+breaks+failed
spoiler alert "my breaks failed" wins by a ratio of 18 to 1. Apr 1, 2013