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n. (plural of emergency brake English)
Usage examples of "emergency brakes".
An instant later the rear of the pickup slammed into the front of the Blazer with enough force to shove that vehicle ten feet backward in spite of its firmly engaged emergency brakes—.
Its emergency brakes gone, there was nothing anchoring it to the uneven ground.
A shrill toot filled the air as an alarmed engineer threw his emergency brakes, watching helplessly as momentum carried the oncoming locomotive along slick, invisible magnetic fields onto a track already occupied by another train.
That is, it had the effect of removing the emergency brakes from a locomotive and putting it on a straight, downhill stretch of tracks.
The meek fat man stopped the touring car by putting on both foot and emergency brakes.