"brake check" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "brake checked",
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        "past"
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      "form": "brake checked",
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        "3": "brake checked",
        "4": "brake checked"
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      "expansion": "brake check (third-person singular simple present brake checks, present participle brake checking, simple past and past participle brake checked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "orig": "en:Automotive",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Renée Santos, “Caught On Camera: Driver ‘Brake Checks’ Vehicle, Causing Driver To Lose Control On Highway 50”, in CBS Sacramento:",
          "text": "The CHP said it’s seeing an increase in reports of people being more aggressive on the road. “If somebody honks, they’ll honk back. If somebody cuts them off, they will brake check and they will go back and forth,” said Officer Ceja.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To deliberately brake in an unexpected place to hinder or startle the driver behind."
      ],
      "id": "en-brake_check-en-verb-l22ewDvM",
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          "automotive",
          "automotive"
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        [
          "brake",
          "brake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(automotive) To deliberately brake in an unexpected place to hinder or startle the driver behind."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "brake test"
        },
        {
          "word": "brake-check"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "automotive",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ],
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "jarruttaa yllättäen eteen"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "büntetőfékez"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brake check"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brake checks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brake checking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brake checked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "brake checked",
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        "past"
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        "1": "brake checks",
        "2": "brake checking",
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        "4": "brake checked"
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          "ref": "2020, Renée Santos, “Caught On Camera: Driver ‘Brake Checks’ Vehicle, Causing Driver To Lose Control On Highway 50”, in CBS Sacramento:",
          "text": "The CHP said it’s seeing an increase in reports of people being more aggressive on the road. “If somebody honks, they’ll honk back. If somebody cuts them off, they will brake check and they will go back and forth,” said Officer Ceja.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To deliberately brake in an unexpected place to hinder or startle the driver behind."
      ],
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          "automotive",
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        [
          "brake",
          "brake"
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        "(automotive) To deliberately brake in an unexpected place to hinder or startle the driver behind."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "brake test"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "automotive",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "brake-check"
    }
  ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "jarruttaa yllättäen eteen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "büntetőfékez"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brake check"
}