Definitions
an escape from jail
Word origin
Deverbal from break out. The video game genre is named after Breakout, the first game of this kind, released in 1976 by Atari.
Used in a sentence
“But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.”
“[…] a "breakout" game where a ball is bounced off a bar at the bottom of the screen up to a wall of bricks. Each time the ball strikes a brick it is eliminated and points are awarded.”
“[…] a breakout game in Greenfoot […] In breakout the user hits a ball with a paddle into bricks […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Jail escape”8 letters
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