Definition of "heartbreaker" []

• One that causes sorrow, grief, or disappointment: "one young and chaste, the other a dissolute heartbreaker of 48; one prim, the other passionate” ( Ellen McGarrahan). (noun)
• Sports & Games A narrow or last-minute defeat. (noun)

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• "Well, all your lovers are on the jury, the heartbreaker is the D.A. Can't you see, now, baby, they wanna see me framed and put away"
• "Lauren--The three older boys had "heartbreaker" shirts."
• "As much fun as it is in theory to think of oneself as a "heartbreaker", in actual fact, if you are a person with feelings, it mostly is just complicated and sometimes painful to go through multiple relationships."