suicide lane
n.— «Johnson suggest that a three-lane highway with a “holding-lane” be constructed.…Kozlovski commented on the three-lane road with passing lane as a dangerous situation that has been nicknamed elsewhere as “suicide lane.”» —“Highway Couplet Unveiled” Daily Chronicle (Centralia-Chehalis, Washington) Mar. 23, 1966. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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