tailback's Usage Examples:

tailbacks on the road mean that there are big gaps for people to get across.

Local roads which are at full capacity at peak times will have long tailbacks where the route crosses them, holding up traffic.

The North Circular was reduced to 1 lane from 3, causing a huge tailback.

No-one else makes a five mile tailback on the M25 come to life the way he does.

tailback of traffic stretching several kilometers is reported to the east of the city.

One police officer claimed the traffic tailback to Hull was over four miles.

Over the next five years, direct action protests against the construction of new roads become almost as common across Britain as motorway tailbacks.

Additional traffic lights on the Pentagon roundabout have created tailbacks to the Wyvern center at times when previously there had been none.

One particularly expressive picture captures a tailback of oil tankers stood bumper-to-bumper in symmetry with a line of sheep led by a farmer.

tailbacks on the other side of the road are commonly seen.

Then on Thursday morning a burst sewer pipe had to be repaired on Church Road, causing a two-mile tailback and an unfortunate odor.

A COLLISION between a car and a motorcycle on the M4 caused massive tailbacks on Monday.

tailbacks for hours and massively disturbing the shift change-over.

Synonyms:

back,

Antonyms:

negate, stay in place,