tailbacks'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.

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.

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

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.

We were even advised of a short cut back to M23 to avoid tailbacks during rush hour traffic!namely the Amblypygi of which Phrynus is a commonly cited type, these tactile appendages are exceedingly long and lashlike, whereas in the tailed division, the Uropygi, of which Thelyphonus is best known, the limb is much shorter and less modified.

Frustrated motorists were caught up in heavy tailbacks which put hours on most journeys.

tailbacks built up on the motorway while the emergency services dealt with the aftermath of the crash.

Synonyms:

back,

Antonyms:

negate, stay in place,