the meeting broke up : END, finish, stop, terminate; adjourn; N. Amer. recess.
the crowd began to break up : DISPERSE, scatter, disband, part company.
Danny and I broke up last year : SPLIT UP, separate, part (company); divorce.
(informal) the whole cast broke up : BURST OUT LAUGHING, dissolve into laughter; informal fall about, crack up, crease up; theatrical slang corpse.
2192; headword