road rage

noun

: a motorist's uncontrolled anger that is usually triggered by an action of another motorist and that is expressed in aggressive or violent behavior

From punching cars to shooting drivers, road rage … takes many forms.—

Natalie La Roche Pietri

Drivers reported experiencing road rage most frequently on city streets (29.18%), on freeways or highways (26.59%) and in parking lots (14.9%).—

Ashlee Tilford

—often used before another noun

a road rage incident

An apparent road rage shooting left one person wounded …—

Anna Spoerre

road rager

ˈrōd-ˌrā-jər

noun

plural road ragers

Other drivers may have similar feelings or thoughts, but only the road rager responds with dangerous behavior: tailgating, pulling right in front of you at high speeds, running you off the road, refusing to let you into traffic, and so on. —

Michael Karson

Examples of road rage in a Sentence

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According to local news station 9 News, the incident occurred during an alleged road rage incident in which a car sped down a residential street in pursuit of another smaller vehicle. —

Toria Sheffield, People.com, 2 Feb. 2025 The premise was loosely inspired by Lee’s own Los Angeles road rage incident years ago, when a man aggressively berated him for not hitting the gas pedal soon enough after the stop light turned green. —

Jessica Wang, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2025 Listen to this article A Connecticut man was arrested Tuesday and accused of flashing a pistol during a road rage incident on Interstate 95 in Fairfield. —

Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025 Witnesses described him as exhibiting road rage before his vehicle struck the brothers. —

Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for road rage