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noun

a rounded ridge built crosswise into the pavement of a road or driveway to force vehicles to slow down.

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Origin of speed bump

First recorded in 1970–75

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How to use speed bump in a sentence

Quentin Tarantino’s foray into the world of NFTs hit a major speed bump this week when the production company Miramax filed a lawsuit against the director in California court for selling Pulp Fiction NFTs.
The Quentin Tarantino-Miramax Dispute Isn't the First Lawsuit Over NFTs—And it Won't Be the Last|Andrew R. Chow|November 17, 2021|Time
So third party search providers can leverage this speed bump too, if they want.
Google Chrome makes Omnibox prefetch faster for your default search engine|Barry Schwartz|November 2, 2021|Search Engine Land
Another speed bump appeared when they realized they didn’t have enough money to meet the demand for the games.
This OZY Genius Is Making Education in Uganda Delicious|Tracy Moran|June 13, 2021|Ozy
When I was at Open Market in the 1990s, our CEO gave out the recently published book “Crossing the Chasm” to the executive team and told us to read it to gain insight into why we had hit a speed bump in our scaling.
After 30 years, ‘Crossing the Chasm’ is due for a refresh|Walter Thompson|June 10, 2021|TechCrunch

In La Jolla, California, an existing roundabout was critiqued by one resident who wanted to add stop signs and speed bumps to make the roundabout more “civilized.”
Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished? (Ep. 454)|Stephen J. Dubner|March 11, 2021|Freakonomics

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