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break for something

1. to stop working for something else, such as lunch, coffee, etc. We should break now for lunch. I want to break for coffee.

2. to run suddenly toward something; to increase dramatically one's speed while running. At the last moment, the deer broke for the woods. The deer broke for cover at the sound of our approach.

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