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- noun Plural form of
handbrake .
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Examples
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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.
Michael L. Millenson: Why 3 Hospitals Didn't Hurt My Wife (And What That Means) Michael L. Millenson 2011
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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.
Michael L. Millenson: Why 3 Hospitals Didn't Hurt My Wife (And What That Means) Michael L. Millenson 2011
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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.
Michael L. Millenson: Why 3 Hospitals Didn't Hurt My Wife (And What That Means) Michael L. Millenson 2011
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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.
Michael L. Millenson: Why 3 Hospitals Didn't Hurt My Wife (And What That Means) Michael L. Millenson 2011
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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.
Michael L. Millenson: Why 3 Hospitals Didn't Hurt My Wife (And What That Means) Michael L. Millenson 2011
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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.
Michael L. Millenson: Why 3 Hospitals Didn't Hurt My Wife (And What That Means) Michael L. Millenson 2011
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December 13, 2009 at 12: 31 pm while PULLING the handbrakes, do we have to press the saftey button or not?
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An instant shrieking of handbrakes, and the rumbling train of loaded flat-cars slowed down toward the trestle.
The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan
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This was also the picnic when Ashley drove from Candolim to Betim in his Fiat without releasing the handbrakes.
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The brakes are magnetic, with auxiliary handbrakes.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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