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

The Police Department was investigating Styles’ death as a road rage incident, which escalated to a fight in the intersection. —Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2025

Feras Hamdan, a 36-year-old Ohio doctor, turned himself in with counsel on Friday and was arrested and charged after allegedly forcing Republican Representative Max Miller off the road in a road rage incident. —Dan Gooding gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025

Police said a suspect in the alleged road rage incident has turned himself in. —Jon Haworth, ABC News, 20 June 2025

The burrito road rage incident happened Friday, May 9, near a Dollar Tree in Spring, the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office said in a May 12 news release. —Mitchell Willetts, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2025

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