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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breakdown \Break"down`\, n.
1. The act or result of breaking down as of a carriage;
downfall.
2.
a A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in
competitively by a number of persons or pairs in
succession, as among the colored people of the
Southern United States, and so called perhaps,
because the exercise is continued until most of those
who take part in it break down
b Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet,
usually by one person at a time. [U.S.]
Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over
for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up
with --New Eng.
Tales.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
breakdown
n 1: the act of disrupting an established order [syn: {dislocation}]
2: a mental or physical breakdown [syn: {crack-up}]
3: a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power failure"
[syn: {equipment failure}]
4: an analysis into mutually exclusive categories [syn: {partitioning}]
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