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[ adjective ] used of traffic

Synonyms

bumper-to-bumper

Examples

"bumper-to-bumper traffic"

Used in print

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

Heavy_coated , severe looking policemen sat astride noble horses along the curbside to prevent the revellers from spilling_out in_front of the crawling traffic .

Related terms

slow

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[ adjective ] moving or progressing very slowly or laboriously especially by or as if by dragging the body along close to the ground

Synonyms

creeping

Examples

"a riverbank full of crawling crocodiles" "a creeping tractor"

Related terms

moving

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[ noun ] a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body)

Synonyms

creep creeping crawl

Examples

"a crawl was all that the injured man could manage" "the traffic moved at a creep"

Related terms

locomotion crawl

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