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  • noun A strenuous, taxing, exhausting, backbreaking task

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Examples

  • The backbreaker was a seven-point swing in the span of about 20 seconds when an intentional foul on Singler led to a flurry of points.

    News & Record Article Feed 2008

  • "I definitely think it was a backbreaker," Coach Bruce Boudreau said of Gagne's goal.

    Capitals lose 3-0 to Lightning, miss out on chance to move up in Southeast Katie Carrera 2011

  • After just forty-eight seconds of action, Sammartino used his Italian backbreaker to force Rogers into submission, thus ending the first-ever WWE Championship reign.

    WWE Championship Kevin Sullivan 2010

  • Too many 5-on-3s was the backbreaker tonight, '' Sanford said.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • While I waited for Major to emerge with some twenty-pound backbreaker, I leaned against one of the shelves.

    FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

  • While I waited for Major to emerge with some twenty-pound backbreaker, I leaned against one of the shelves.

    FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

  • Then came the backbreaker: the punt return by Thomas that electrified the Arizona Stadium crowd of 58,704.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • While I waited for Major to emerge with some twenty-pound backbreaker, I leaned against one of the shelves.

    FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

  • What makes it all so relevant now is that the amount of available credit -- the backbone or backbreaker of economic expansion -- is still a gory story, although some economic trackers, obvious long-time residents of Disneyland, are saying the just opposite, that the credit squeeze is practically history.

    Drowning In Debts And Deficits 2010

  • While I waited for Major to emerge with some twenty-pound backbreaker, I leaned against one of the shelves.

    FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

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