road rage
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3.9
- noun
- /roʊd reɪdʒ/
- NSFW
:
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- Yesterday I faced an incident of road rage, too, on the highway through the Yuma Proving Ground.
- road rage incident
- case of road rage
- road rage driver
And if I die losing it on the road with road rage, that's wrong.
- And if I die losing it on the road with road rage, that's wrong.
- What is is road rage a crime in Florida?
- OK, What I've had it with, I've had it with drivers that intentionally provoke road rage on purpose.
- She was telling me she's like, you know, when you see adults have road rage or they're reactive, that's not the adult in them reacting, it's the child.
- So no road rage for our THT family out there.
- All this stuff that people think of the road rage, jump out the car, shoot the guy, shoot him.
- And then you start tweeting angry tweeting is like, it's just like road rage and it wasn't smart.
- As I say with Kenny Noyer, when he had that road rage thing, remember he's the guy's parents.
- Yeah, man, NASCAR would be so much more interesting if you added road rage.
Examples
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She felt a wave of road rage wash over her when the car in front suddenly slammed on the brakes for no reason.
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Psychologists and other experts say that incidents of road rage are becoming increasingly more deadly.
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I had a little touch of road rage today and scared some poor woman crossing the street.
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Famous director Rob Reiner was the victim of a road rage incident today in Hollywood.
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My most vivid memory of road rage was driving north on US 29 through Maryland.
Blog text (24) -
Cities are stressful places to live, and that stress may be a contributor to road rage.
Blog text (24) -
"Companies must have, and must enforce, a strong policy that says acts of road rage will not be tolerated," Sauvey says.
Academic text (2001) -
Road-rage fatalities have skyrocketed 500%.
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After waiting in traffic for hours, he finally lost his temper and displayed serious road rage towards the driver who cut him off.
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Many drivers now report experiencing road rage during rush hour, especially when faced with aggressive behavior from others.
Synonyms
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3.5
Hostile or violent behavior toward others
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4.1
Actions that hurt or try to control other people
Antonyms
How Aggressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'road rage' is transparently derived from 'road' (place where driving happens) + 'rage' (intense anger); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to anger or aggressive behavior occurring while driving. This compositional pattern (emotion + location/context) is common cross-linguistically, so no idiomatic knowledge is required.
Etymology
Road rage comes from the picture of a driver on the road showing rage, so angry that they shout, drive dangerously, or even attack another driver. That's why it means 'violent or aggressive behavior by drivers'.