handbrake
Britishnoun
-
a brake operated by a hand lever
-
the lever that operates the handbrake
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Playing on the title, it opens with a big gospel organ and a massed chorus, before a handbrake turn into lip-smacking rap.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
She said his story changed and he claimed Kimberley was in the car and pulled the handbrake, causing it to crash.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
It is a handbrake turn after Baby Reindeer, but Gunning says the script was "beautiful" and she wanted to be involved "in the special charity".
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025
For over an hour on Thursday, his team looked like it was playing with the handbrake on against a side ranked 40th in the world, just three places above Scotland.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025
Otto squeezed his handbrake and fishtailed his back tire so he now faced the direction from which they’d come.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
