Some while ago it was in to say 'Broken!' to pepole when they hadn't said anything forsome time, or when you got in a great comeback. This might not be a comback itself, but it's related to it, and since it's such a misuse of the word (IMO) it's a pretty bad... expression. If you don't know what I mean with the expression 'broken', it is what you call a man or whomen (or human in general. Or creature in general) that is broken mentally, due to sorow (which often is related to loseing a very important person in your life, but I guess there could be other factors too). You're so broken mentally you can't really funktion no more. It's not like you're a zombie though, you're just really really sad.
To use this expression on someone who you just got in a good comeback on, in order to strenghen that comeback is in the light of my explenation a poor way to use the expression. To illustrate how poorlly it was used I have a true story (heard from two friends of mine (back in the days when I had friends <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />) who didn't go to the same school as I did) about a teacher who gave a student a question. When this student hadn't answered for two seconds he bursted out:
"AHA! Broken! You havn't said anything for TWO seconds! Brrroooken!"
Übereil
