gridlocknoun [ U ]
uk/ˈɡrɪd.lɒk/us/ˈɡrɪd.lɑːk/a situation where roads in a town become so blocked by cars that it is impossible for any traffic to move:
A car breaking down at rush hour could cause gridlock across half the city.
a situation in which no progress can be made
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
On the road: traffic jams
- back
- back up
- backed up
- bottleneck
- bumper
- bumper to bumper idiom
- congested
- jam
- rasta roko
- rush hour
- snarled up
- sock
- sock sth/sb in (with sb)
- tail
- tail back
- tailback
- traffic
- traffic calming
- traffic jam
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