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spaghetti junction

The screwed up intersection of I-285 and I-85 on the north side of Atlanta. If you are planning on driving through Atlanta and listing to traffic reports make sure you know this term.
Traffis on I-85 North is at a stand still just past spaghetti junction
spaghetti junction by Blue Devil January 10, 2005

spaghetti junction

The other post is correct in saying that I-35W is part of Spaghetti Junction. However, the I-35W/MN 62 junction is a whole different interchange, the Crosstown Commons. Spaghetti Junction is the interchange of I-35W and I-94 in downtown Minneapolis. MN 55 is also a part of the SJ, but to a lesser extent. The reason for the name is from all the local streets passing over the interchange that allow access into the interchange for the freeways.

And although this one is not referred to as such, the I-94/I-35E interchange in downtown St. Paul (less than 10 miles to the east) can also be referred to as Spaghetti Junction due to the on-ramps from Wacouta/10th Sts into the I-94/35E interchange.
"Here's Spaghetti Junction."

"There's so much traffic here, think we'll see any meatballs?"

"Nope, just MEATHEADS, as in the drivers here."

spaghetti junction

That tangle of cables behind your VCR - DVD - stereo - TV.
I wanted to hook up new speakers but got caught up in the spaghetti junction.
spaghetti junction by Capn VDO July 15, 2004

spaghetti junction

The most congested merging of roads in Minneapolis. The point where 35W and 62 meet in a traffic mess.
Person 1: "How do you go home from work?"
Person 2: "I take 35W"
Person 1: "Oh that sucks."
Person 2: No, my exit is before spaghetti junction."
spaghetti junction by Fedboy February 8, 2005

Spaghetti Junction

The congested intersection of state highway 1 and state highway 16 in Central Auckland, New Zealand
We gotta get to the airport but we should leave 2 hours early cos we gotta drive through Spaghetti junction
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
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