Definitions
Etymologies
- jug + handle (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A jughandle is a rather confusing affair in which left turns are made by turning right and then doing something else, like going through a stop sign or turning left at a T.”
“SOUTH BURLINGTON - From Burlington's "jughandle" (that tangle of access roads on U.S. 2 at the city's western edge) to the entrance ramps for Interstate 89, a motorist faces more than congested traffic.”
“Of course we had the big jughandle ears of a Horshmeyer, crooked teeth (though mine were straightened by a dentist), a square jaw, bushy eyebrows curved like the wings of flying geese, and a strong Mediterranean bend to our nose.”
“An example is the Michigan Left, not to be confused with the New Jersey jughandle left two different ways of handling left turns that don't have folks driving through the middle of an intersection.”
“FWIW, I find the Michigan Left easy to deal with, and recover from, while the jughandle left always catches me off guard and having to change lanes in a hurry.”
“Sheemie waited until the old man's thumb came unhooked from the jughandle and the hand flopped onto the cobbles.”
“Joe Garcia of the group LatinoLines said Tuesday that the Seventh's "snaking tail and jughandle have got to go.”
“More than 42,000 cars travel the stretch of U.S. 2 between the jughandle and the interstate on-ramp each day on average, according to state Agency of Transportation traffic studies.”
“Long turned into a jughandle in front of the F.C. Kerbeck ”
“This project will improve safety and relieve congestion at this intersection by realigning Route 35 to provide a near-90-degree intersection with Route 36 and making further upgrades to the jughandle ramps at the intersection," Greeley said.”
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amber words
amber words is the term I use for words that are all but fossilized, in the sense that their use is always in the context of a single expression. Examples include caboodle, dudgeon, umbrage
sanctum, akimbo, amok, riddance, druthers, trove, caboodle, immemorial, blithering, dudgeon, swaddling, askance and 110 more...
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A Geographical History
Place words, words specific to places I have been to, lived in, loved, and loathed.
piney, chowdahead, big dig, bang a left, hub, wicked, hala ammi, bodega, jughandle, rotary, parkway, bridge and tunnel and 2 more...
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