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Traffic trouble
Answer for the clue "Traffic trouble ", 8 letters:
gridlock
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Word definitions for gridlock in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gridlock is a type of traffic jam where "continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting streets, bringing traffic in all directions to a complete standstill". The term originates from a situation possible in a grid plan where intersections ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way. 2 On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a traffic light-controlled ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The average commuter spends the equivalent of 3.5 days in gridlock every year. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Any car that stopped received a honking as if this were New York gridlock . ▪ Demanding that opposition victories in ...
Usage examples of gridlock.
She took Ventura Boulevard the rest of the way, encountered gridlock, foul tempers, distracted cell phone gabbers, some truly frightening risk-taking.
Soon the phone lines were gridlocked and a seemingly productive day was shot to hell.
Parliament Square, which was gridlocked in three directions with the fourth inching along at the speed of cold treacle.
The season of goodwill was everywhere, it seemed, except behind the steering wheels of gridlocked vehicles and inside my head.
After a hurried stop downstairs for their equipment, Evon and Robbie buffeted through the after-work crowd, the walks illuminated by the autos gridlocked in the avenues.
They dodged traffic and ran along the top of a gridlocked line of car roofs before turning off the freeway.
Fifty feet away a tall untethered man had whirled out with his chain to flog the gridlocked traffic.
After the shunting torment of Central Park South the Autocrat got gridlocked in a theatreland sidestreet.
Instead of being packed like rats into a gridlocked suburb, you can relax on a lush, secluded ten-acre ranchette, not far from the historic Suwannee River.
And then, approaching the gridlock at Coldwater again via the drive-through lane of the Marcos Whiplash Clinic, I saw in the fluorescent blue haze blanketing the intersection a vision from Hell itself: out of the sea of traffic a red intake port began to surface, snout-like, lupine.
Newman waited until just before the doors closed before boarding the train and pressed himself in with other standees, who were glad to be riding instead of fighting gridlock on the highways to get home.
They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles, Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bun-gee jumping.
Just as predictably, he blamed it on the usual suspects: gridlock in Congress, the growth of entitlements, the insurmountable power of PACs, and, of course, the need to pay interest on the national debt, which had grown to something like ten trillion dollars.
Hooter moaned louder as the minivan crept ahead in the barely moving gridlock of race fans, all of whom were getting out of sorts and worrying about missing the start of the race, when the pace car would roar out onto the track and Air Force F-16s would fly over in formation.
Normally at this time of day, Ryan knew all too well from his own experience, the nation's capital was gridlocked with the automobiles of federal employees, lobbyists, members of Congress and their staffers, fifty thousand lawyers and their secretaries, and all the private-industry service workers who supported them all.