Talk:zoo break

RFV discussion: January 2019

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zoo break

Can we cite this one? - TheDaveRoss 16:50, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes. DTLHS (talk) 18:40, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Is it worth trying though? It looks like it is just zoo (sense 1) + break (noun sense 10) and I can only find two independent uses of zoobreak. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 08:05, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Hmm, perhaps it should have been an RFD. - TheDaveRoss 19:48, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

I took the liberty of RFDing it. Per utramque cavernam 20:40, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

RFV-passed. Kiwima (talk) 21:27, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

RFD discussion: January–May 2019

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zoo break

SOP. See also Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English § zoo break, soon to be archived at Talk:zoo break. Per utramque cavernam 20:40, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

• Keep. Not very obvious from parts. I had to click on the link to understand what was being referred to. Mihia (talk) 01:02, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

  Out of curiosity, before clicking on the link what other concept did you think the term might represent? - TheDaveRoss 18:28, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

  • @Mihia: But how is it different from prison break? Per utramque cavernam 11:48, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

I would say that "zoo break" is harder to understand from the parts than "prison break" (but I wouldn't object if someone also wanted to create "prison break"). Mihia (talk) 18:34, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

There is an entry for jail break after all. DonnanZ (talk) 19:26, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

It's protected by coalmine. This one is not. Per utramque cavernam 19:36, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

The animals (and birds) are the inmates, if not true "criminals". DonnanZ (talk) 13:05, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Delete, sense 1 of zoo and noun sense 10 of break. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 10:46, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

• Delete as SoP. — SGconlaw (talk) 11:52, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
• Keep. There are no less than 17 senses of the noun break, and this one appears to be a shortening of breakout. It certainly doesn't have the same meaning as daybreak, century break, tea break, weekend break, etc. DonnanZ (talk) 13:08, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

  I have to imagine that there are orders of magnitude fewer two-word terms which comprise two words which each have only one meaning than those in which one or both terms have multiple senses. There may not be any such terms at all, if nuance is allowed. - TheDaveRoss 18:28, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

• Keep per Mihia. Jberkel 18:23, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Keep. Appears to be etymologically modelled on jailbreak.-Sonofcawdrey (talk) 00:15, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 18:13, 25 May 2019 (UTC)