"breakdancer" meaning in English

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      "tags": [
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        "English entries with etymology trees",
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        "Entries with translation boxes",
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        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
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          "text": "If the family had owned an allotment or even the smallest patch of grass anywhere on the estate they could call their own, Zoe would have dug a little grave with a spoon, lowered her little friend into the hole and made a headstone with a lolly stick.\nGingernut,\nMuch loved Hamster,\nExpert breakdancer,\nAnd sometime bodypopper.",
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          "text": "An Olympic refugee team breakdancer used the first breaking battle in Olympic history to deliver a message to her home country.",
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      "sense": "A person who does breakdancing",
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