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- noun Plural form of
heartbreaker .
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Examples
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And until the blessed season of 2004, they were known as heartbreakers or, if you're less kind, chokers.
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I tell my boys that they are going to be heartbreakers, and to be gentle with the girls who tell them that they want to marry them (and they do, already!).
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That's the new music video from a foursome of American players—Ben Crane, Rickie Fowler, Bubba Watson and Hunter Mahan—pretending to be boy band heartbreakers.
Tiger's Replacement: That Guy in Overalls Jason Gay 2011
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And now I'm filling in the middle, such as these two heartbreakers -- one about a mother who gives up everything for her son (1936) and the other about a father so wrapped up in his son he ends up driving the kid away (1942).
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Leonard Cohen-palooza! (And More) Michael Giltz 2010
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With the win, the Giants are permanently sealed as Boston heartbreakers, like Mookie Wilson and Bucky Dent before them.
The Indy Victory Lap No One Expected Jason Gay 2012
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And now I'm filling in the middle, such as these two heartbreakers -- one about a mother who gives up everything for her son (1936) and the other about a father so wrapped up in his son he ends up driving the kid away (1942).
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Leonard Cohen-palooza! (And More) Michael Giltz 2010
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And now I'm filling in the middle, such as these two heartbreakers -- one about a mother who gives up everything for her son (1936) and the other about a father so wrapped up in his son he ends up driving the kid away (1942).
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Leonard Cohen-Palooza! (And More) Michael Giltz 2010
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That's the new music video from a foursome of American players—Ben Crane, Rickie Fowler, Bubba Watson and Hunter Mahan—pretending to be boy band heartbreakers.
Tiger's Replacement: That Guy in Overalls Jason Gay 2011
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He was not the biggest, or the strongest, and he lost many heartbreakers, but there were moments when he was the best, because he played complete.
McEnroe Is Still Magic in Winter Jason Gay 2011
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As boys move into adolescence, they start seeing girls not as friends but adversaries, and they "win" the battle by becoming players and heartbreakers.
Laura Stepp: Dear Landon School: Decorum Is Not the Same as Honor 2010
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