BREADCRUMB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breadcrumb mean? 

• BREADCRUMB (noun)
  The noun BREADCRUMB has 1 sense:

1. crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening

  Familiarity information: BREADCRUMB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREADCRUMB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("breadcrumb" is a kind of...):

crumb (small piece of e.g. bread or cake)

 Context examples 

Watch the days that circle November 27 for clues of what may be coming—big outer planets usually leave breadcrumbs toward the next development.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Can you recall that the tracks were sometimes like that, Watson,—he arranged a number of breadcrumbs in this fashion—: : : : :—and sometimes like this—: . : . : . : .—and occasionally like this—.・.・.・.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nor is any occasion too small to take note of, for I have known such trifles as the dropping of a gauntlet, or the flicking of a breadcrumb, when well and properly followed up, lead to a most noble spear-running.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The witch placed herself on the shore, threw breadcrumbs in, and went to endless trouble to entice the duck; but the duck did not let herself be enticed, and the old woman had to go home at night as she had come.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)