breakoff
or break-off
[breyk-awf, ‐of]
- a discontinuation, especially abrupt, as of relations.
- the action of breaking off.
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Origin of breakoff
First recorded in 1860–65; noun use of verb break off (in the sense “to stop sudddenly”)
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