Samba de breque is a subgenre of samba that emerged in Rio de Janeiro between the late 1930s and early 1940s.
[1][2] The main characteristic of the subgenre is "breque", a Brazilian term for "brake".
[3] In other words, it is a samba with sudden stops, usually of a humorous character, in which the singer makes spoken comments.
[2][1] The singer Moreira da Silva consolidated himself as the great name of this style of samba.
The first success of the subgenre was "Acertei no milhar", a samba by Wilson Batista and Geraldo Pereira.