service break

1. 1.

   a tennis game won on the opponent's service

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Questions about service break

What does service break mean?

service break means "a tennis game won on the opponent's service".

Is service break a common word?

service break is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.