spaghetti bowl
n.— «Riding the subways was something many of the suburban commuters approached with trepidation—deciphering the psychedelic spaghetti bowl that is a New York subway map,» —“In Bronx, Commuters Learn ABC’s Of IRT” by William E. Geist New York Times Mar. 9, 1983. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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