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shooting-brake

shooting-brake is the alternative form of shooting brake.

Meaning of shooting brake

Noun

shooting brake (plural shooting brakes)

  1. (UK, historical) A vehicle used to carry shooting parties.
  2. A group of car body styles such as station wagon or coupé.
    • The car is a shooting brake, which was conceived to take gentlemen on the hunt with their firearms and dogs. While the name has been loosely applied to station wagons in general, the most famous shooting brakes had custom two-door bodies fitted to the chassis of pedigreed cars from the likes of...2006 November 26, William Diem, “The Shooting Brake Makes a Comeback”, in New York Times

Forms of shooting-brake

pluralshooting-brakes

Questions about shooting-brake

What is shooting-brake the alternative form of?
Shooting-brake is the alternative form of shooting brake.

Words near shooting-brake in the dictionary

  1. shooting through like a Bondi tram
  2. shooting trouble
  3. shooting up
  4. shooting war
  5. shooting wars
  6. shooting-brake
  7. shooting-brakes
  8. shooting-iron
  9. shooting-irons
  10. shooting-jacket
  11. shooting-jackets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shooting-brake (page history and authors); shooting brake (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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