Noun: break-dancer
| Singular | break-dancer |
| Plural | break-dancers |
Sample Sentences
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More obviously than any classical Hollywood musical, Flashdance utilizes the “opera vs. swing” narrative to suggest that ballet is a moribund, effete, and stiff form that has been waiting for a break-dancer to bring it to life and make it relevant. [2008, Adrienne L. McLean, Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema:]
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Barbara was a part-Iranian Harley-Davidson-riding rock-chick contralto from Los Angeles; Colm an Irish dancer from Pennsylvania; Stuart an All-American acrobat from Tulsa, Melissa had the voice of Aretha Franklin, Simon was a black break-dancer from Brooklyn and Lucifer was Lucifer. [2010, Maggy Whitehouse, The Miracle Man, page 241:]
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Puma had cinematic presence, and he was a remarkable break-dancer, but when he met Jessica his career was sliding to the bottom of its brief slope of success. [2012, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family:]
Nouns inflected like break-dancer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From break-dance + -er.