Blechlawine

== German == === Etymology === Blech (“sheet metal”) +‎ Lawine (“avalanche”) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈblɛçlaˌviːnə] Hyphenation: Blech‧la‧wi‧ne === Noun === Blechlawine f (genitive Blechlawine, plural Blechlawinen) (informal, humorous) a slowly advancing, long, solid line of vehicles due to dense traffic or forced flow; river of metal, stream of cars 2004, Uwe Rada: Zwischenland: Europäische Geschichten aus dem deutsch-polnischen Grenzgebiet. be.bra verlag, Berlin-Brandenburg, →ISBN (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015), p. 33: 2013, Matthias Prangel: Die Frau auf dem Hochseil: Erzählung. 1st edition, Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt, →ISBN (e-book; GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015): 2014, Klaus Heidenreich: Lächeln in Bangkok. epubli, Berlin, →ISBN (e-book; GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015): ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Blechlawine” in Duden online “Blechlawine” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “Blechlawine” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon