Breaks
Cover
Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Both words in one sentence
- The Girls Aloud cover of "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus flips the gender, and breaks the rhyme scheme.
Source: The Cover Changes the Gender - The cover by Portishead, recorded specially for High-Rise, makes it more about how a rotten society inevitably breaks emotional connections between people.
Source: The Cover Changes the Meaning - Strawberry Eggs almost accidentally breaks his cover on the first day of his teaching job, in front of the whole school through this trope.
Source: Gender Vocabulary Slip
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