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bumper to bumper
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with traffic so heavy that cars are very close together and moving slowly
About cars and traffic. Before a noun it is hyphenated: 'bumper-to-bumper traffic'.
In context
The traffic was bumper to bumper all the way from the airport.
Before Tet, the roads out of the city are bumper to bumper for days.
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