jam
noun/dʒæm/
Frequency rank: #3,360 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a situation in which traffic is blocked and cannot move
Example sentence
There was a traffic jam on the highway this morning, so I was late for work.
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