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road rage

road rage noun: uncontrollable aggressive behavior by the driver of a road vehicle, especially when caused by stress or frustration.

Noun

road rage (uncountable)

  1. Uncontrollable aggressive behavior by the driver of a road vehicle, especially when caused by stress or frustration.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:road rage.

Verb

road rage (third-person singular simple present road rages, present participle road raging, simple past and past participle road raged)

  1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To engage in such behavior.

road rage meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

road rage in Tamil

சாலைச் சினமூட்டி

road rage in Tagalog

behavior
away-kalsada, away sa daan

Forms of road rage

third-person singular presentroad rages
present participleroad raging
past participleroad raged
pastroad raged

Origin of road rage

road + rage. First use appears c. 1988 in the Orlando Sentinel.

Words formed from road rage

Questions about road rage

What does road rage mean?
Road rage means uncontrollable aggressive behavior by the driver of a road vehicle, especially when caused by stress or frustration.
What is road rage in Tamil?
Road rage in Tamil is சாலைச் சினமூட்டி. See Road rage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is road rage?
Road rage can be a noun or a verb.

Words near road rage in the dictionary

  1. road pizzas
  2. road pricing
  3. road race
  4. road races
  5. road racing
  6. road rage
  7. road rager
  8. road ragers
  9. road rash
  10. road reclaimer
  11. road recycler

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: road rage (page history and authors); road rage (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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