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malfunction junction

malfunction junction is the alternative letter-case form of Malfunction Junction.

Proper noun capitalized: Malfunction Junction

Malfunction Junction

  1. (US, informal) A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion.
    • The center of the new city was on the Clark Fork River, one and one half miles from what would become Malfunction Junction, along the newly built military road (now an interstate highway) and what became a railroad line,[…]2003, James Gifford, Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux, editors, Culture + the State: Landscape and Ecology, CRC Studio, →ISBN, page 152

Forms of malfunction junction

pluralmalfunction junctions

Origin of malfunction junction

Attested in military publications from the early Cold War years; early uses are primarily for airports. Perhaps popularized, and widened in sense, by the 1973 Schoolhouse Rock! segment "Conjunction Junction".

Questions about malfunction junction

What does malfunction junction mean?
Malfunction junction means a traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion.
What is malfunction junction the alternative letter-case form of?
Malfunction junction is the alternative letter-case form of Malfunction Junction.
What part of speech is malfunction junction?
Malfunction junction is a proper noun.

Words near malfunction junction in the dictionary

  1. malfouf
  2. malfouf salad
  3. malfouf salads
  4. Malfoycest
  5. malfunction
  6. malfunction junction
  7. malfunction routine
  8. malfunction routines
  9. malfunctional
  10. malfunctioned
  11. malfunctioner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malfunction junction (page history and authors); Malfunction Junction (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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