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What is "slow lane"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slow lane
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As always since the Government came into power, we are in the slow lane.
▪ It accelerated and moved into the slow lane, as he passed.
▪ It was her decision to join me out here on the slow lane.
▪ It was time to ease back over to the slow lane, take another off-ramp, let the car cool.
▪ Old fogey that I am, after that I stayed in the slow lane, poking along at 80 or 90.
▪ She tried to concentrate on driving, she got the car into the slow lane and looked down at her stomach again.
▪ Would you expect him to poke along in the slow lane?
WordNet
slow lane

n. the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving slowly [ant: fast lane]

Usage examples of "slow lane".

Beyond that a portable TV, a plastic clothes basket, what looked like a clutch of cameras with the straps all tangled together, and a rubber home plate fell on the slow lane and into the breakdown lane.

As soon as the heavy old vehicle slewed to a stop, he shoved the shift lever into reverse and tromped on the accelerator and wove the lumbering machine down off the slope and back along the blessedly empty slow lane to the last off ramp.

Ben broke in, thinking of the one-hundred mile-an-hour limit in the slow lane.

It was while I did this that I noticed the headlights of another car drift across a couple lanes of traffic to drop into the slow lane behind us.

Soon they were roaring together, laughing so hard that Hormat had to pull into the slow lane and steer with the elbow of his accelerator arm so he could have a hand free to wipe the tears away.

There were no tanks on the road itself, in fact no sign of the military at all until the side road at Kurkino, where an endless line of armoured personnel carriers filled the slow lane.

Mouse steadies the Centurion and pulls it over into the slow lane.

Dom Zerchi had no intention of stopping while the girl was in the car, but one of the officers stepped out into the slow lane just ahead of them and pointed his traffic baton at the vehicle's obstruction detectors.

Dora Zerchi had no intention of stopping while the girl was in the car, but one of the officers stepped out into the slow lane just ahead of them and pointed his traffic baton at the vehicle's obstruction detectors.

Dom Zerchi had no intention of stopping while the girl was in the car, but one of the officers stepped out into the slow lane just ahead of them and pointed his traffic baton at the vehicle’.

Tommy had to pull over to the slow lane to avoid a stack-up of traffic which was turning off at the Sky-port Drive-In Theater on the outskirts of Loleta, the college suburb seven miles north of Santa Bonita.

Then he turned and walked back to the cruiser, where he waited for the Audi to move into the slow lane, its tail light blinking with a sad urgency.

Dom Zerchi had no intention of stopping while the girl was in the car, but one of the officers stepped out into the slow lane just ahead of them and pointed his traffic baton at the vehicles obstruction detectors.