breakout

From the verb phrase break out.

breakout (plural breakouts)

1. An escape from prison.
2. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
3. An outbreak.
   • 1988, Thomas Goodman, ‎Stephanie Young, Smart Face (page 115)

     But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.

4. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
5. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.

• break out
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breakout (not comparable)

1. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to mainstream success.

• kabouter, outbrake, outbreak