pork chop island

English
Pork chop island at the lower left corner of the crossroads, with a violet car on the slip lane that divides it from the city block.

Etymology

From being a road traffic control island shaped like a typical pork chop (i.e. triangular).

Noun

pork chop island (plural pork chop islands)

  1. An intersection traffic control island which splits the flow of traffic in two, one to turn using the slip lanes, and one to go through or cross traffic lanes.

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