breakout

[breyk-out] Origin

break·out

[breyk-out]
noun
1.
an escape, often with the use of force, as from a prison or mental institution.
2.
an appearance or manifestation, as of a disease, that is sudden and often widespread; outbreak.
3.
an itemization; breakdown: a hotel bill with a breakout of each service offered.
4.
an instance of surpassing any previous achievement: a breakout in gold prices.
5.
the act or process of removing and disassembling equipment that has been used in drilling a well.
adjective
6.
of or constituting a sudden increase, advance, or unexpected success: The director has finally scored with a breakout movie.

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Breakout is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.

Origin:
1810–20; noun use of verb phrase break out
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breakout
1820, from break + out. The verbal phrase goes back to O.E. ut brecan, utabrecan. Transitive sense is attested from 1610s.
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