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BREAK OF SERVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
Example:
he was up two breaks in the second set
Synonyms:
break; break of serve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("break of serve" is a kind of...):
score (the act of scoring in a game or sport)
Domain category:
lawn tennis; tennis (a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court)