grid´locked

grid´locked
grid|lock «GRIHD lok», noun, verb.
–noun.
1. a complete stoppage of all vehicular traffic on crossing streets in a given area of a city.
2. any complete stoppage of activity due to overcrowding: »

jammed in telephone gridlock with everyone on the phone and no one getting through (New Yorker).

–transitive verb.
to subject to a gridlock: »

The phones were also gridlocked at Stanford, in Palo Alto (Rolling Stone).

grid´locked, adjective.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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