broken in


Meanings

  • enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act;
  • break into a conversation;
  • start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role
  • intrude on uninvited;
  • break so as to fall inward;
  • make submissive, obedient, or useful;
  • tamed or trained to obey;
    • "this old nag is well broken in"