Reverse Dictionary: TRAFFIC (vehicles)

ADJECTIVES
► CREEP-AND-CUSS of car traffic: extremely congested → 1964 US sl.
► NOSE TO TAIL one behind another and very close together, now esp. of motor vehicles in heavy traffic → a1834

NOUNS
► APPLE ORCHARD a location where summonses are frequently incurred by traffic-law violators and other minor offenders → 1970 US police usage
► ATTITUDE TEST the extremely subjective criteria used by a traffic police officer in deciding whether to issue a traffic ticket or let the offending driver off with a warning → 1984 US sl.
► BLUE PAPER a traffic ticket; a summons → 20C Aust. & NZ sl.
► BLUEY a traffic ticket; a summons → 1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
► CIRCULATION traffic → 2001 Can. sl.
► CIRCUS a traffic circle, a road junction in which traffic moves in one direction around a circular island → 1967 Amer. dial.
► COUPON in trucking: a speeding ticket  → 1976 US sl.
► DOUGHNUT a traffic roundabout → 1981 UK sl.
► DUMMY a traffic circle → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GAPER-BLOCK ► GAPERS’ BLOCK a traffic problem created by motorists slowing down to gawk at an accident → 1961 US sl.
► MALFUNCTION JUNCTION an area characterized by exasperating and confused activity; a bewildering or heavily congested highway intersection; a traffic jam → 1975 Amer. sl.
► MONKEY MAZE a confusing, complicated traffic interchange → 1962 US sl.
► PASS, THE the people or vehicles going past; pedestrian traffic → 1916 Amer. dial.
► PASSING the people or vehicles going past → 1871 Amer. dial.
► POACHED EGG ‘a yellow-coloured “silent cop” placed in the centre of intersections as a guide to traffic’ → M20 Aust. sl.
► RED LIGHT a traffic light of any colour → 1957 Amer. dial.
► ROTARY a traffic circle → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRAMBLE, THE the chaotic movement of pedestrians as soon as traffic lights permit → 1984 Aust. sl.
► SEMAPHORE a traffic light → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SILENT POLICEMAN a construction or device used to direct the flow or speed of traffic → 1920 Amer. dial.
► SNARL-UP a chaotic mess; often applied to a near-gridlock in a traffic system → 1960 UK sl.
► VEHICULATION conveyance by means of a vehicle or vehicles; vehicular activity or traffic → 1834

NOUNS – PERSON
► GAY GORDON a traffic warden → 1992 US rhyming sl.
► LIFER a person who has been given a traffic ticket; used ironically → 1984 US sl.

PHRASES
► IN THE SATCHEL said of a motorist who has been given a traffic ticket → 1958 US
sl.

VERBS
► BURN THE YELLOW to race through a yellow traffic light → 1992 Can. sl.
► BUZZ to fail to stop at a red traffic light → 2000s US sl.
► GET YOUR NOSE BENT to be convicted of a traffic violation → 1962 US sl.