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語源

Attested in military publications from the early Cold War years; early uses are primarily for airports. Perhaps popularized, and widened in sense, by the 1973 Schoolhouse Rock! segment "Conjunction Junction".

固有名詞

Malfunction Junction

1. (US, informal) A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion.
   • 2003, James Gifford, Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux, editors, Culture + the State: Landscape and Ecology, CRC Studio, →ISBN, page 152:

     The center of the new city was on the Clark Fork River, one and one half miles from what would become Malfunction Junction, along the newly built military road (now an interstate highway) and what became a railroad line, […]

Further reading

• “malfunction junction n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present