chicken lane

English

Etymology

Noun

chicken lane (plural chicken lanes)

(slang) An additional lane in the middle of a two-way street that assists drivers who are turning onto the two-way street.
- 1998, Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia:
  It's about two miles long with three lanes - one this way, one that way, and a chicken lane. Our driver was determined that the chicken lane was his going across the bridge driving about sixty miles per hour.

Synonyms

suicide lane

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