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What is "traffic jam"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
traffic jam
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We were stuck in a traffic jam on the freeway for two hours.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A rush-hour style traffic jam at 12 p.m.
▪ Look, Chief, you want to cause a traffic jam?
▪ Otherwise every traffic jam will gradually vanish beneath a rising tide of its own foamy output.
▪ The Columbia River was a traffic jam of barges carrying bauxite to the smelters in Longview, Washington.
▪ There was a long halt, as a traffic jam piled up ahead.
Wiktionary
traffic jam

n. A situation in which all road traffic is stationary or very slow.

WordNet
traffic jam

n. a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move [syn: snarl-up]

Wikipedia
Traffic jam (disambiguation)

Traffic jam is most commonly a colloquial term for traffic congestion.

Traffic jam may also refer to:

  • Traffic Jam, an early name of Status Quo
  • Traffic Jam (film), a 1979 Italian film
  • Traffic Jam (Malcolm in the Middle episode)
  • "Traffic Jam", a song by Weird Al Yankovic from the album Alapalooza
  • Traffic Jam, guitar solo performed by Carlos Santana and Stevie Ray Vaughan
Traffic Jam (film)

Traffic Jam is a 1979 Italian satirical comedy- drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Usage examples of "traffic jam".

Having realised it, instantly there was a traffic jam inside my skull, horns blowing, brakes squealing, head-on collisions.

The truckloads of equipment almost cannot make it through this traffic jam, but they do, and there's another really frustrating and tedious week of hauling all of the shit through the jungle.

You walk up there and see how far this motherfuckin traffic jam goes.

Roy Wong said as a traffic jam blossomed in the narrow, screeching street near the bustling intersections of Mong Kok.

Keep, those other strips rolling, or we will have a traffic jam the devil himself couldn’.

As soon as it was dark a traffic jam developed at the underground pool entrance-sporting subs, fake ground cars such as Mary's, ostensible surface cruisers modified to dive, each craft loaded with refugees some half suffocated from lying in hiding on deep bottom most of the day while waiting for a chance to sneak in.

Keep, those other strips rolling, or we will have a traffic jam the devil himself couldn't untangle.

They had driven up onto the sidewalk in an attempt to get through, only to be hemmed in by another truck that backed out of a warehouse and added to the traffic jam.

Without the dictaphone she would be tense and nervous, pounding the dash in helpless frustration at every minor traffic jam.

Even worse, two miles from Crittleden they ran into a huge traffic jam.