Definitions
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- noun A
strenuous ,taxing ,exhausting ,backbreaking task
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Examples
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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.
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"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
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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
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Too many 5-on-3s was the backbreaker tonight, '' Sanford said.
USATODAY.com 2008
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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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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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Then came the backbreaker: the punt return by Thomas that electrified the Arizona Stadium crowd of 58,704.
USATODAY.com 2008
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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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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.
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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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