Definition of "prison-breaking" []

• An escape from jail (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Riot cheerleader Lord George Gordon was a rabid anti-Catholic who led sixty thousand Protestant rioters on an orgy of burning, looting, and prison-breaking in opposition to a new act outlawing discrimination against Catholics."
• "But not your good old BabyCenter developmental marker milestones sure, I could blog about how the Future Ruler of the Known and Unknown Universe has moved from standing and cruising to balancing and climbing - prison-breaking, effectively, as she masters hoisting herself up and over the baby gates - but these are coming so fast as to defy meaningful posting."
• "Eventually he obtained his discharge and continued on his career of crime and prison-breaking, among other things murdering a policeman and a gaoler, until, on 18th July 1821, he was hanged at Edinburgh."