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brakes (device used to slow or stop a vehicle).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fixed-gear riders are no longer content to just bomb around town on their brakeless track bikes, racing from one dive bar to the next.
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In a paper on abortion (The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect, 1967), she used what became a much-cited example to pinpoint fine distinctions in moral permissibility where an action has both good and bad results – the dilemma facing the driver of a suddenly brakeless trolley-bus that would hit five people unless he steered it on to another track into only one person.
Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010
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Elvis 'excess-slurred words could barely be made out at his concerts eight years before that half-century milestone he'd never make, a sad mess and a brakeless freight train going downhill fast.
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Elvis 'excess-slurred words could barely be made out at his concerts eight years before that half-century milestone he'd never make, a sad mess and a brakeless freight train going downhill fast.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Fixed-gear riders are no longer content to just bomb around town on their brakeless track bikes, racing from one dive bar to the next.
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So if the brakeless riding causes cancer and the tight jeans are squiching their pant yabbies then the fixeraty will eventually become extinct...sounds good.
The Indignity of Bike Month: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Cleats, Love and Understanding? BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The thrill of risking ass cancer AND lung cancer is going to prolong the whole brakeless fixie thing.
The Indignity of Bike Month: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Cleats, Love and Understanding? BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Same goes for the front brake, if you rather go brakeless.
Archive 2010-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010
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To see the devastation first hand, I traveled to his village in a windowless, brakeless Land Rover that was shot at by rebels.
John Heffernan: Two Genocides and the Perpetrators Remain Free John Heffernan 2010
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This link between brakeless riding and "ass cancer" is the medical breakthrough that every worried parent of a budding "fixter" has been waiting for--in fact, it would not surprise me in the least to learn that the poster is at the center of a vast parental conspiracy.
The Indignity of Bike Month: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Cleats, Love and Understanding? BikeSnobNYC 2010
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