break it down

break it down
vb
British
to enjoy oneself, act boisterously. A vogue term among teenagers and devo-tees of dancefloor and acid house culture from the end of the 1980s. The term, perhaps American in origin, was also recorded in use among North London schoolboys in 1993 and 1994, some-times as an exclamation.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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