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"text": "It wasn't an actual run-in with the heartbreaker himself, but with a very good friend of his. It's actually much better that way, Victor explained, because seeing the friend of the person who stepped on your heart isn't going to kill you all over again.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Lynn Price, Donovan's Paradigm, Behler Publications, →ISBN, page 234:",
"text": "\"And this little lovely standing next to him is my favorite heartbreaker, The Fair Lady Sara from Samaria. Kids, this is Dr. Donovan.\" Sara beamed, obviously thrilled at being considered anyone's heartbreaker, especially Uncle Erik's.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Andrea J Buchanan, It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 146:",
"text": "I imagined him as the kind of boy who knows girls are equals; the teen with female friends as well as male; then a kind man, a good man, the kind of man who knows better than to be a heartbreaker, despite his looks.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:",
"A person, usually attractive, who flirts with or otherwise enamours another person, but does not reciprocate their love."
],
"links": [
[
"breaks someone's heart",
"break someone's heart#English"
],
[
"attractive",
"attractive"
],
[
"flirt",
"flirt"
],
[
"enamour",
"enamour"
],
[
"reciprocate",
"reciprocate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(agent noun) Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:",
"A person, usually attractive, who flirts with or otherwise enamours another person, but does not reciprocate their love."
],
"tags": [
"agent"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, James Ellroy, White Jazz, Vintage, →ISBN, page 340:",
"text": "He's not lucid most of the time, and that's a heartbreaker. The LAPD will not release details on the altercation that earned Dudley Smith his wounds; they know he would prefer to spare the family of the robber he killed the ignominy of public ...",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone, Penguin, →ISBN:",
"text": "It's a heartbreaker, as I was reminded just now when I went to get the chapter reference, reread it, and started bawling.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Bobbi Sheahan, Kathy DeOrnellas, What I Wish I'd Known about Raising a Child with Autism: A Mom and a Psychologist Offer Heartfelt Guidance for the First Five Years, Future Horizons, →ISBN, page 198:",
"text": "It's a heartbreaker. The worst part of that situation was trying to console Grace. It was just awful. Don't let experiences like this make you bitter. The truth is, our kids are a challenge, and not everyone is going to want to join us in this journey.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:",
"Something that causes sorrow, grief or extreme disappointment."
],
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"breaks someone's heart",
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],
[
"sorrow",
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],
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"grief",
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],
[
"disappointment",
"disappointment"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(agent noun) Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:",
"Something that causes sorrow, grief or extreme disappointment."
],
"tags": [
"agent"
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},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Sports"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Mark Stallard, Tales from the Jayhawks Gridiron, Sports Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 164:",
"text": "Kansas appeared in its first bowl following the 1947 season, losing a heartbreaker to Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl. KU landed in the Bluebonnet Bowl following the 1961 season, and beat up a good Rice squad, 33-7.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Tom Benjey, Keep A-goin': The Life of Lone Star Dietz, Tuxedo Press, →ISBN, page 246:",
"text": "Wyoming lost a heartbreaker 7–6. Utah's touchdown was scored on an intercepted pass, Wyoming missed an extra point and, most importantly, an official did not get downfield in time to see a punt hit a Utah player not once, but twice[…]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Dieter Dubberke, Three Times Blessed, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 94:",
"text": "In 1988 and again in 1989 the team went back to Bristol, Connecticut, for the nationals, coming in at third place one year and in second place another, losing the championship to Wisconsin-Oshkosh in a heartbreaker in eleven innings.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:",
"A match which ends in defeat for a promising player or team."
],
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[
"breaks someone's heart",
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],
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"player",
"player"
],
[
"team",
"team"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(agent noun) Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:",
"(sports) A match which ends in defeat for a promising player or team."
],
"tags": [
"agent"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:",
"A curl or lovelock."
],
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[
"breaks someone's heart",
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],
[
"curl",
"curl"
],
[
"lovelock",
"lovelock"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(agent noun) Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:",
"(dated) A curl or lovelock."
],
"tags": [
"agent",
"dated"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/hɑːt.bɹeɪ.kə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/hɑɹt.bɹeɪ.kɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "trencacors"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fùxīnrén",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"word": "負心人 /负心人"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"word": "sydäntensärkijä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "casse-cœur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Herzensbrecher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Herzensbrecherin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"english": "regarding love affairs",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kardiokataktitís",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "καρδιοκατακτητής"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hjerteknuser"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pożeracz serc"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pożeraczka serc"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "quebra-corações"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razbivátelʹ serdéc",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "разбива́тель серде́ц"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razbivátelʹnica serdéc",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "разбива́тельница серде́ц"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "serdcejéd",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сердцее́д"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "serdcejédka",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сердцее́дка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person who causes sorrow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rompecorazones"
}
],
"word": "heartbreaker"
}
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