Word.ws English Dictionary

rumble strip

rumble strip noun: a pattern of variation in a road's surface designed to alert inattentive drivers to potential danger by causing a tactile vibration and audible rumbling if they veer out of their lane.

Noun

rumble strip (plural rumble strips)

  1. A pattern of variation in a road's surface designed to alert inattentive drivers to potential danger by causing a tactile vibration and audible rumbling if they veer out of their lane.

Forms of rumble strip

pluralrumble strips

Questions about rumble strip

What does rumble strip mean?
Rumble strip means a pattern of variation in a road's surface designed to alert inattentive drivers to potential danger by causing a tactile vibration and audible rumbling if they veer out of their lane.
What part of speech is rumble strip?
Rumble strip is a noun.
What is the plural of rumble strip?
The plural of rumble strip is rumble strips.

Words near rumble strip in the dictionary

  1. rumberry
  2. rumble
  3. rumble on
  4. rumble seat
  5. rumble seats
  6. rumble strip
  7. rumble strips
  8. rumble-bumble
  9. rumble-tumble
  10. rumble-tumbles
  11. rumbled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rumble strip (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rumble strip.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rumble_strip. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.