shooting brake

noun

A vehicle used to carry shooting parties.

First used early 19th c.
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Meanings

nounshooting brake (plural shooting brakes)

plural shooting brakes · alternative shooting-brake

  1. UKhistoricalautomotiveA vehicle used to carry shooting parties.First known use early 19th c.
  2. automotiveA group of car body styles such as station wagon or coupé.
    1 more example

    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 Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce.

    2006 November 26, William Diem, “The Shooting Brake Makes a Comeback”, in New York Times
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APA

shooting brake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shooting%20brake

MLA

“shooting brake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shooting%20brake. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shooting brake,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shooting%20brake.

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