coaster brake

1. 1.

   a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals

   Broaderbrake

   Part ofbicycle

Questions about coaster brake

What does coaster brake mean?

coaster brake means "a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals".

Is coaster brake a common word?

coaster brake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.