Figure of male grabbed by itinerant breaking free (8)
I believe the answer is:
rhomboid
'figure' is the definition.
(rhomboid is a kind of figure)
'male grabbed by itinerant breaking free' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'grabbed by' indicates putting letters inside.
'itinerant' becomes 'hobo' (I've seen this before).
'breaking' is an insertion indicator.
'free' becomes 'rid' ('rid' can be a synonym of 'free'**).
'm' going inside 'hobo' is 'hombo'.
'hombo' inserted inside 'rid' is 'RHOMBOID'.
'of' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for rhomboid that I've seen before include "Describing a type of parallelogram" , "diamond" , "Shape" , "Parallelogram of which only opposite sides and angles are equal" , "Quadrilateral in which only opposite sides and angles are equal" .)