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gaper-block
noun
a traffic problem created by motorists slowing down to gawk at an accident US- He also did not measure the time lost from “gapers’ blocks”—delays caused when passing motorists go slowly past the wreckage. — Chicago Daily Tribune, p. 20, 27 November 1961
- — Don Dempsey, American Speech, p. 269, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 26, 1972
- In St. Louis, one such policeman has invented (apparently) a term for the traffic-jam caused by drivers slowing down to gawk at an accident or incident: gaper-block. — Verbatim, p. 627, May 1978
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