title: Breaker
text: # Breaker
  
  Breaker may refer to:
  
  ## Objects
  
  * A breaking wave on water, or a "breaker", a shallow over which waves break
  * Circuit breaker, an electrical overload switch
  * Breaker (hydraulic), a percussion hammer attached to an excavator
  
  ## People
  
  * Breaker Morant (1864-1902), Anglo-Australian folk hero, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal nicknamed "The Breaker"
  * Daniel Breaker (born 1980), American actor and comedian
  * Ronald Breaker, American biochemist and Yale professor
  * Someone who performs B-boying, also known as breakdancing
  
  ## Places
  
  * Breaker Mountain, Canada
  * Mount Breaker, Graham Land, Antarctica
  * Breaker Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
  * Breaker Reef, Hong Kong, an uninhabited island
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * The Breaker (film), a 1974 documentary about Breaker Morant
  * Breaker (Accept album), 1981
  * Breaker (For Today album), 2010
  * Breaker (Vary Lumar album), 2014
  * The Breaker (album), by Little Big Town, 2017
  * The Breaker (manhwa), a Korean comic
  * Breaker (Black), an outdoor sculpture
  * Breaker (G.I. Joe), a fictional character
  * The Breaker, a book by Minette Walters
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * USS Breaker, several US Navy ships
  * Ship breaker, a firm that engages in ship breaking, i.e. scrapping ships
  * A brand of lager brewed in the UK by Coors
  * Breaker fruit or breaker stage in the ripening of fruit
  