noun Street Slang

brake tag

· noun · nola

The car inspection sticker — what every other state just calls an inspection sticker.

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Universal New Orleans name for the annual motor vehicle inspection sticker stuck on your windshield. Nobody local says 'inspection sticker.' The name stuck even after Louisiana scrapped the statewide program in most parishes — Orleans Parish kept it going longer than anybody.

“I gotta get my brake tag before the cops pull me over again.”
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brake tag In A Sentence

I gotta get my brake tag before the cops pull me over again.

Origin & Usage

Louisiana motor vehicle inspection program, dating to the mid-20th century. Original inspections focused heavily on brakes, and the name outlived the focus.

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