traffic jam
traffic jam noun: a situation in which road traffic accumulates until it is stationary or very slow.
Noun
traffic jam (plural traffic jams)
- A situation in which road traffic accumulates until it is stationary or very slow.
- Victorian Londoners did not speak of 'traffic jams' - that term came from America after the First World War. They spoke rather of traffic 'locks' or 'blocks', and their prevalence would be one reason why Pearson began to direct his thoughts underground.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 17
- Driving in London next week ? Then watch out for the big traffic-jam spots – the places where you may well face a wait if you cannot go another way.1965 October 8, “If you are driving next week... these are the black spots to avoid”, in The Evening News and Star
- Synonyms:
- snarl-up, parking lot
traffic jam meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
traffic jam in Hindi
- situation in which all road traffic is stationary or very slow
- चक्काजाम cakkājām
traffic jam in Tamil
- போக்குவரத்துத் தடை, போக்குவரத்து நெரிசல்
traffic jam in Urdu
- situation in which all road traffic is stationary or very slow
- جمود آمد و رفت jumūd-e-āmad-o-raft, انجماد آمد و رفت injimād-e-āmad-o-raft
traffic jam in Bengali
- situation in which all road traffic is stationary or very slow
- যানজট janojoṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- traffic jam in Malayalam
- കുരുക്ക് kurukkŭ
- traffic jam in Kannada
- ಸಂಚಾರ ದಟ್ಟಣೆ
- traffic jam in Tagalog
- pagsisikip ng trapiko, trapik
- traffic jam in Arabic
- اِزْدِحَام الْمُرُور izdiḥām al-murūr, اِخْتِنَاق مُرُورِيّ iḵtināq murūriyy
- traffic jam in Malay
- kesesakan trafik, kesesakan lalu lintas
- traffic jam in Indonesian
- kemacetan, macet
- traffic jam in Thai
- รถติด rót-dtìt
- traffic jam in Vietnamese
- ách tắc giao thông, tắc đường, kẹt xe
Synonyms of traffic jam
Forms of traffic jam
| plural | traffic jams |
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Questions about traffic jam
- What does traffic jam mean?
- Traffic jam means a situation in which road traffic accumulates until it is stationary or very slow.
- What is traffic jam in Hindi?
- Traffic jam in Hindi is चक्काजाम (cakkājām). See Traffic jam meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is traffic jam?
- Traffic jam is a noun.
- What is the plural of traffic jam?
- The plural of traffic jam is traffic jams.
Words near traffic jam in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: traffic jam (page history and authors); traffic jam (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കുരുക്ക് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); traffic jam (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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