Summary: | break'er down n What did people xx here in Renews do before radio and television became so widespread? . . . I've often heard my mother tell about the gang which went around together and gathered at one house or another every night for a "scoff", "scuff", "time", or "breaker-down". At these get-togethers there would be singing, piano and accordion music, dancing, story-telling a nd recitations. . . . Today this is a very uncommon occurrance [sic] . . . DNE-cit JH 8/72 Used I Used I Used I Source appears in DNE I as M 68-11
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