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Shuttle breaks with it (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

spaceship

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'shuttle' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'breaks with it' is the wordplay.
'breaks' becomes 'spaces' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'with it' becomes 'hip' (both can mean cool or fashionable).
'spaces'+'hip'='SPACESHIP'

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(Other definitions for spaceship that I've seen before include "Interplanetary craft" , "Craft to travel outside the Earth's atmosphere" , "long-distance traveller?" , "long-distance vessel" , "Transport that's out of this world" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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