Timeline for What is a group of cars on the road called?
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| Sep 5, 2014 at 8:35 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | This sense from R H K Webster's gives the usage in question: pocket 5. an isolated group, area, or element contrasted with a surrounding element or group: pockets of resistance. And from Google Dictionary: some of the gardens still had pockets of dirty snow in them. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 7:07 | comment | added | Andy Dent | Pocket seems the antithesis as it normally indicates a hole in a solid or surface. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 3:05 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's obviously not an incorrect term, and it's understandable. I've heard it myself. Though it's not a collocation, I prefer it to 'bunch of cars' which mildly triggers a 'less than orderly' connotation in my mind. AHD has a sense suggesting why: bunch 2. Informal A group of people usually having a common interest or association: My brother and his bunch are basketball fanatics. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 2:20 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |