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brake-check

brake-check is the alternative form of brake check.

Meaning of brake check

Verb

brake check (third-person singular simple present brake checks, present participle brake checking, simple past and past participle brake checked)

  1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To deliberately brake in an unexpected place to hinder or startle the driver behind.
    • The CHP said it’s seeing an increase in reports of people being more aggressive on the road. “If somebody honks, they’ll honk back. If somebody cuts them off, they will brake check and they will go back and forth,” said Officer Ceja.2020, Renée Santos, “Caught On Camera: Driver ‘Brake Checks’ Vehicle, Causing Driver To Lose Control On Highway 50”, in CBS Sacramento
    Synonyms:
    brake test

Forms of brake-check

third-person singular presentbrake-checks
present participlebrake-checking
past participlebrake-checked
pastbrake-checked

Questions about brake-check

What is brake-check the alternative form of?
Brake-check is the alternative form of brake check.

Words near brake-check in the dictionary

  1. brake tests
  2. brake van
  3. brake vans
  4. brake wheel
  5. brake wheels
  6. brake-check
  7. brake-checked
  8. brake-checking
  9. brake-checks
  10. brakeage
  11. Brakebill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brake-check (page history and authors); brake check (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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