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

Recent Examples on the Web

Thomas Maulson, 45, alleges Sheriff's Deputy Will Taege tripped him while handcuffed in a Walmart parking lot in Rhinelander on March 30, 2024, following a road rage incident Maulson was involved in. — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Officers are looking into whether it is possibly connected to a road rage incident. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

Investigators determined that the incident started out of road rage, with one driver following the other toward a house. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Sep. 2026

Continue reading … BAD MEDICINE – Doctor accused of shooting two young sisters in violent road rage clash. — FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1988, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for road rage

• assuage
• backstage
• bocage
• downstage
• engage
• enrage
• leafage
• messuage
• offstage
• onstage
• outrage
• pelage