shooting brake
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A group of car body styles such as station wagon or coupé.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Usage
- British usage