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I know this is going to start an argument, and it's probably an old one, but it should be "shooting break."
The "break" refers to a flat wagon used to break draft horses. Englishmen in the late 1800s started to go out on shooting parties (pheasant and grouse mostly) using these big flat wagons, sometimes adding seats. Voila, the "shooting break" was born.
The English called their first motorized stationwagons "shooting breaks" after the shooting carriage. (They were also called stationwagons because that's where they went to pick up passengers.)
Then cars had "brakes" which are a very important article. (Wagons had brakes, too, but also had the shafts and the breeching that used horse-power to help stop the wagon.) And we corrupted "shooting break" "shooting brake." Ugh. It doesn't give credit to the real origin of the damn vehicle.
Oh, well.
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