Gridlock

Quick meaning: Gridlock is a noun meaning (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.

Meaning

(figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.

More Meanings

1. (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
2. To cause traffic congestion.
3. (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
4. On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.

Example Sentences

Tattoo on my gridlock that says twink death

God, ngl, some gridlock sounds real good right about now (iykyk)

Making my girlfriend print out a cute pic of my gridlock so she doesn’t forget what it looks like while she’s away from me.

[…] thalia is a lesbian that dated a trans girl once and got a taste of gridlock and now is exclusively a chaser for trans girls

Word Forms

• gridlocks
• gridlocking
• gridlocked

Related Words

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