Malfunction Junction

English Etymology Attested in military publications from the early Cold War years; early uses are primarily for airports. Perhaps popularized, and widened in sense, by the 1973 Schoolhouse Rock! segment "Conjunction Junction". Proper noun Malfunction Junction en US informal A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion. en 2003 James Gifford; Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux Culture + the State: Landscape and Ecology CRC Studio 9781551951393 152 https://books.google.com/books?id=xiS3KrkwDj0C&pg=PT152&dq=%22Malfunction+Junction%22&hl=&cd=7&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Malfunction%20Junction%22&f=false The center of the new city was on the Clark Fork River, one and one half miles from what would become Malfunction Junction, along the newly built military road (now an interstate highway) and what became a railroad line, Further reading opqcvny malfunction junction n en rhyming compounds