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means A sudden, forceful escape from confinement or constraint — whether a prisoner fleeing a cell, a stock surging past its resistance level, or a rash spreading across skin.

from Straightforward compound of 'break' plus 'out,' first fused into one word around the 19th century to describe prison escapes — the oldest and most literal sense. From there it spread outward: by the early-to-mid 20th century, military writers used it for a force smashing through enemy lines, and traders and technical analysts later borrowed that same muscular image for a price finally punching through a ceiling it had respected.