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shooting brakes

shooting brakes is the plural 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

Questions about shooting brakes

What is shooting brakes the plural of?
Shooting brakes is the plural of shooting brake.

Words near shooting brakes in the dictionary

  1. shooting board
  2. shooting boards
  3. shooting box
  4. shooting boxes
  5. shooting brake
  6. shooting brakes
  7. shooting circle
  8. shooting circles
  9. shooting daggers
  10. shooting down
  11. shooting first and asking questions later

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