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speedbump

speedbump is the alternative spelling of speed bump.

Meaning of speed bump

Noun

speed bump (plural speed bumps)

  1. A traffic calming measure, consisting of a transverse ridge in the road, to limit the speed of vehicles.
  2. (figuratively) An obstacle or difficulty; roadblock; snag.
  3. (high-frequency trading) Any technical measure taken by an electronic financial exchange to deliberately delay orders by microseconds or milliseconds.

Forms of speedbump

pluralspeedbumps

Questions about speedbump

What is speedbump the alternative spelling of?
Speedbump is the alternative spelling of speed bump.

Words near speedbump in the dictionary

  1. speedbridged
  2. speedbridger
  3. speedbridgers
  4. speedbridges
  5. speedbridging
  6. speedbump
  7. speedbumps
  8. speedcar
  9. speedcars
  10. speedcore
  11. speedcube

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speedbump (page history and authors); speed bump (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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