house broke

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verb (used with object), house·broke, house·bro·ken, house·break·ing.

to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.

Origin:
1895–1900; house + break

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Word Origin & History

housebreak

1820, "to break into a house criminally;" sense of "to train a domestic animal to be clean in the house" is from 1900.

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