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Break north
(American)
To depart, leave. A vogue term in black street slang of the 1990s, the origin of the term is obscure but may evoke the escape of a slave from the southern states. A variety of euphemisms (like its contemporaries bail, book, jam and jet) for 'run away' are essential to the argot of gang members and their playground imitators.
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