breakdancer
noun
break·danc·er
ˈbrāk-ˌdan(t)-sər
variants
or break dancer
or less commonly break-dancer
plural breakdancers or break dancers also break-dancers
: someone who breakdances
… a new hip-hop dance work by the breakdancer and choreographer Anne Nguyen that involves 20 New York City street dancers in the Bronx and Times Square.—Joshua Barone
… "Wild Style," a 1983 film that was hailed as the first hip-hop movie and featured real-life graffiti writers, rappers and break dancers in and around the Bronx.—Julianne McShane
… [Emmanuel Macron] watched a performance of break-dancers who hope to compete in the 2024 Olympics in Paris.—Jeffrey Schaeffer
Acrobatic dancers known as b-boys, b-girls, and breakers (the media eventually labeled them as breakdancers, a term still in wide circulation today) flocked to DJ Kool Herc's parties …—Jonathan Abrams
called also breaker
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