- the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
- the blocking of an intersection by vehicular traffic entering the intersection but unable to pass through it.
- any situation in which nothing can move or proceed in any direction: a financial gridlock due to high interest rates.
- obstruction of urban traffic caused by queues of vehicles forming across junctions and causing further queues to form in the intersecting streets
- a point in a dispute at which no agreement can be reached; deadlock
- (of traffic) to block or obstruct (an area)
