chicken lane

== English == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “"chicken" in sense of "coward"?”) The name derives from the game of "chicken," in which two drivers head directly at each other head-on, which is what drivers in opposing "chicken lanes" do until they both turn. === Pronunciation === === Noun === chicken lane (plural chicken lanes) (slang) An additional lane in the middle of a two-way street that assists drivers who are turning onto the two-way street. Synonym: suicide lane