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HOV lane

HOV lane is the abbreviation of high-occupancy vehicle lane.

Meaning of high-occupancy vehicle lane

Noun

high-occupancy vehicle lane (plural high-occupancy vehicle lanes)

  1. A restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and at least one passenger, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.
    • Last month, Brandy Bottone of Plano, Texas, was pulled over by a Dallas sheriff’s deputy and given a ticket for driving alone in a high-occupancy vehicle lane.2022 July 12, Luke Vander Ploeg, “Can You Drive Alone in the H.O.V. Lane if You’re Pregnant? A Post-Roe Quandary.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022

Forms of HOV lane

pluralHOV lanes

Questions about HOV lane

What is HOV lane the abbreviation of?
HOV lane is the abbreviation of high-occupancy vehicle lane.

Words near HOV lane in the dictionary

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  9. Hovagim
  10. Hovakimian
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Adapted from Wiktionary: HOV lane (page history and authors); high-occupancy vehicle lane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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