Anagrams of GRIDLOCK_

• a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort

• an idle worthless person

• a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not

• anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

• deprive of by deceit

• avoid (one's assigned duties)

• A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.

• On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.

• (by extension) any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.

• a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible

• a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater

• a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt

• (British informal) faulty

• the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes

• a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)

• Any of various fishes of the Lotidae family.

• Any of certain fishes from other families.

• pertaining to animals or animal life or action