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English
Etymology
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The name derives from the game of "chicken," in which two drivers head directly at each other head-on, which is what drivers in opposing "chicken lanes" do until they both turn.
Pronunciation
Noun
chicken lane (plural chicken lanes)
- (slang) An additional lane in the middle of a two-way street that assists drivers who are turning onto the two-way street.
1998, Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia:It's about two miles long with three lanes - one this way, one that way, and a chicken lane. Our driver was determined that the chicken lane was his going across the bridge driving about sixty miles per hour.
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