tailbacknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈteɪl.bæk/us/ˈteɪl.bæk/UKa line of vehicles that have stopped or are moving only very slowly, because of an accident or other problem on the road in front of them:
Yesterday there was a four-mile tailback on the main road into the city after a crash.
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
- tail back
- traffic
- traffic calming
- traffic jam