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suicide lane
 n.— «Are we going to stand back and let the state build a three lane highway out of Maze Road with our money just to kill people? It will be only a suicide lane.…Who wants a three lane highway in these fast driving days?» —“Hits Three Lane Road” Modesto Bee (California) Apr. 27, 1948. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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