riot stairs

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flight of stairs that is constructed to deliberately disrupt the natural strides of people walking or running on them. plural,plural-only
    — It is slightly believable because the stairs are all riot stairs. In other words the stairs are all diagonal so if you walk straight up them you run into a wall.

词源

Coined for the construction of such stairways on university campuses in response to student unrest during the 1960s and 1970s in an effort to prevent mobs of students from running together.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary