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shooting brake

shooting brake noun: a vehicle used to carry shooting parties.

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
alternative formshooting-brake

Questions about shooting brake

What does shooting brake mean?
Shooting brake means a vehicle used to carry shooting parties.
What part of speech is shooting brake?
Shooting brake is a noun.
What is the plural of shooting brake?
The plural of shooting brake is shooting brakes.

Words near shooting brake in the dictionary

  1. shooting back
  2. shooting board
  3. shooting boards
  4. shooting box
  5. shooting boxes
  6. shooting brake
  7. shooting brakes
  8. shooting circle
  9. shooting circles
  10. shooting daggers
  11. shooting down

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