tail back
UK— phrasal verb with tail uk/teɪl/us/teɪl/verb [ T ]
If traffic tails back, it forms a long line and moves very slowly or stops:
There is traffic tailing back along the motorway for ten miles because of road repairs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
On the road: traffic jams
- back
- back up
- backed up
- bottleneck
- bumper
- bumper to bumper idiom
- congested
- gridlock
- jam
- rasta roko
- rush hour
- snarled up
- sock
- sock sth/sb in (with sb)
- tail
- tailback
- traffic
- traffic calming
- traffic jam