Definition of "handbrakes" [handbrakes]

• Plural form of handbrake. (noun)

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• "We had been bicycling in a quiet neighborhood in southern Maine when she hit the handbrakes too hard and catapulted over the handlebars, turning our first day of vacation into a race to the nearest hospital."
• "December 13, 2009 at 12: 31 pm while PULLING the handbrakes, do we have to press the saftey button or not?"
• "An instant shrieking of handbrakes, and the rumbling train of loaded flat-cars slowed down toward the trestle."