conga line
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A succession of similar events, especially a quick, unstoppable, and/or comical succession.
noun
A moving formation of snowplows and/or similar equipment, arranged in a diagonal line across a multilane highway, airport runway, or other roadway, such that the snow from the first vehicle is passed to the second, and then from the second to third, and so on, thereby clearing much or all of the route's width in a single pass.
Canadian usage
Example Sentences
- "The politician's vainglorious boasting was quickly followed by a conga line of embarrassing defeats."
- "It was a pity, Mel Bakersfeld reflected, that runway snow teams were not on more public view. . . . Airport men called the group a Conga Line."
- "Plows, snowblowers and dump trucks have formed their winter conga lines, and most Montreal Island cities say they'll have streets and sidewalks cleared of snow by Thursday."
- "The trip took longer than usual–following the snow plow conga line, and dodging spinning Expeditions and Jimmys as they pirouetted off the road."
- "On highways such as I190 and I290 a conga line lets plows make a clean sweep from curbline to curbline on one pass he said."
- "The plows move in a "conga line," one tossing snow to the next."