boulevard stop

boulevard stop
 n.— «A woman going through a boulevard stop can say she’s just learning to drive and was afraid she couldn’t get her car started again if it stopped.» —“The Union didn’t much care for Ol’ Billy Carlson” by Arthur Ribbel San Diego Union-Tribune (California) June 3, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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