chicken lane

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An additional lane in the middle of a two-way street that assists drivers who are turning onto the two-way street. slang
    — 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.

词形变化

chicken lanes plural

词源

The name derives from the game of "chicken," in which two drivers head directly at each other head-on, which is what drivers in opposing "chicken lanes" do until they both turn.
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