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n. (plural of break-up lang=en nodot=1) ((alternative spelling of breakups lang=en nocap=1 nodot=1)).
Usage examples of "break-ups".
I quoted to her Dannii Minogue who said that, after break-ups, women often act rebelliously like colouring their hair outrageously, taking sudden trips, or splurging on expensive clothes.
He'd been through relationship break-ups himself, he knew they were tough times.
This expectation is by no means always fulfilled, as rising divorce rates and family break-ups indicate.
This state of affairs was unremarkable enough in itself (although I cannot recall anyone else in my class with an absent parent – the sixties took another seven or eight years to travel the twenty-odd miles down the M4 from London), but the break-up had wounded all four of us in various ways, as break-ups are wont to do.
The harm of bitter break-ups and fatherlessness affects the children of divorce seriously for decades.
Maybe I could have predicted the likelihood of a couple of oil-tanker break-ups, but not that Leydecker would drop dead or that Gilmartin would be exposed as a crook.