noun
General Slang
Breaker
· noun · trucker / CB
Asking permission to cut in on a CB channel.
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A driver requesting permission to start a transmission or join an ongoing conversation on a CB channel. Polite radio etiquette — you announce yourself instead of stomping on someone else's signal.
“Breaker one-nine, this is Rolling Thunder, anybody got a smokey report for the I-40 westbound?”
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Breaker In A Sentence
Breaker one-nine, this is Rolling Thunder, anybody got a smokey report for the I-40 westbound?
Origin & Usage
CB etiquette term from the 1960s–70s. "Break" the existing transmission to ask if you can join. "Breaker one-nine" — break into channel 19, the unofficial trucker channel — became the iconic CB opener, immortalized in the 1975 song "Convoy" by C.W. McCall.
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