"break gates" meaning in English

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      "form": "breaks gates",
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    {
      "form": "breaking gates",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "broke gates",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken gates",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> gates"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1868, “Willowstoke”, in The Light blue, a Cambridge university magazine, volume 3, page 210:",
          "text": "He broke gates to-day; and then there was something that Grove did'nt seem inclined to be very explicit about.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Joseph Romilly, M. E. Bury, J. D. Pickles, Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1848-1864:",
          "text": "From 12½ to past 2 at a College meeting: we rusticated 'sine die', an ill-conducted idle reckless vagabond named Moore — he had been gated, but he broke gates, shirked Sunday Evening Chapel & went to a Hotel to drink & smoke till they shut up the house & turned him out: —we did a good deal of Bursarial work.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Peter Linehan, St John's College, Cambridge: A History, page 304:",
          "text": "Students were frequently caught by the proctors and bulldogs for breaking gates ( i.e. going absent without leave ) .",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter an Oxford or Cambridge college enclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted."
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      "qualifier": "universities",
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        "(UK, universities, idiomatic, dated) To enter an Oxford or Cambridge college enclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1846, Harry Hieover, Stable Talk and Table Talk, Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, page 32:",
          "text": "I have had horses break gates with me , and that both with and without getting a fall ; but candour must make me allow I never rode at one contemplating such a result ;",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, gates."
      ],
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  "word": "break gates"
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    {
      "form": "breaks gates",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "breaking gates",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "broke gates",
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    },
    {
      "form": "broken gates",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    }
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        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> gates"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "British English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, “Willowstoke”, in The Light blue, a Cambridge university magazine, volume 3, page 210:",
          "text": "He broke gates to-day; and then there was something that Grove did'nt seem inclined to be very explicit about.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Joseph Romilly, M. E. Bury, J. D. Pickles, Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1848-1864:",
          "text": "From 12½ to past 2 at a College meeting: we rusticated 'sine die', an ill-conducted idle reckless vagabond named Moore — he had been gated, but he broke gates, shirked Sunday Evening Chapel & went to a Hotel to drink & smoke till they shut up the house & turned him out: —we did a good deal of Bursarial work.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Peter Linehan, St John's College, Cambridge: A History, page 304:",
          "text": "Students were frequently caught by the proctors and bulldogs for breaking gates ( i.e. going absent without leave ) .",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter an Oxford or Cambridge college enclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted."
      ],
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        "(UK, universities, idiomatic, dated) To enter an Oxford or Cambridge college enclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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          "ref": "1846, Harry Hieover, Stable Talk and Table Talk, Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, page 32:",
          "text": "I have had horses break gates with me , and that both with and without getting a fall ; but candour must make me allow I never rode at one contemplating such a result ;",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, gates."
      ],
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