traffic jam
noun
: a situation in which a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly
stuck in a traffic jam
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More Michelle Bir/Jennifer Kim/AP photo/Jennifer Kim A traffic jam forms in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
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Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
And with the rise of wifi, mobile phones and satellite internet, travel on that highway is starting to look like a traffic jam.
—Lucia McCallum, Space.com, 26 July 2025
While the country today is one big traffic jam, back then there was no traffic because there were no cars.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 24 July 2025
Several hundred people hung around, watching an unexpected 6:30 p.m. traffic jam of motorcycles roaring out of downtown on Lincoln Memorial Drive.
—Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 12 July 2025
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Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
And with the rise of wifi, mobile phones and satellite internet, travel on that highway is starting to look like a traffic jam.
—Lucia McCallum, Space.com, 26 July 2025
While the country today is one big traffic jam, back then there was no traffic because there were no cars.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 24 July 2025
Several hundred people hung around, watching an unexpected 6:30 p.m. traffic jam of motorcycles roaring out of downtown on Lincoln Memorial Drive.
—Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 12 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for traffic jam
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“Traffic jam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20jam. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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