spaghetti junction

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noun

an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic

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Word Origin for spaghetti junction

C20: from the nickname of the Gravelly Hill Interchange, Birmingham, where the M6, A38M, A38, and A5127 intersect

Words nearby spaghetti junction

spaetzle, spaewife, spag, spaghetti, spaghettification, spaghetti junction, spaghettini, spaghetti squash, spaghetti strap, spaghetti western, spagyric

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How to use spaghetti junction in a sentence

The future congressman also had some spaghetti but no sauce.
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Few people outside Georgia had even heard of the regional railroad junction town before the start of the war.
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Toledo is a tough city, a factory town, a freight train junction, a lake steamer port.
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The vehicle landed and traveled another 82 feet before striking a telephone junction box.
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A lot of spaghetti with marinara-type sauces are made with the packaged meats.
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It was found afterwards that the rebels meant to fight the two British forces in detail before they could effect a junction.
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The upper block was left a little thicker, the junction or root of the neck necessitating this.
Antonio Stradivari|Horace William Petherick
Parliament had sanctioned a junction, but not such a junction, the Midland said, as it was proposed to make.
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Trieste and Grz were taken; the junction with Marmont was speedily effected, and the combined forces hurried on towards Vienna.
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It lay three miles below town, at the junction of the north and south branches of Coldriver.
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