1A complex multi-level road junction (in the UK, applied typically to a major traffic interchange on the M6 near Birmingham)
we drove non-stop to Manchester, using the new M6 toll road to bypass Spaghetti Junction
a system of spaghetti junctions
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As the traffic got closer to the Spaghetti Junction it started to speed up.
There have been as many twists and turns in the Inner Relief Road as you will find in any spaghetti junction.
The city's most famous landmark is a snarl of concrete freeways affectionately known as Spaghetti Junction.
Imagine Spaghetti Junction, the Blackwall Tunnel exit and Hyde Park Corner all rolled together.
The road system at that point is an insane spaghetti junction - an easy place to get lost, dazed and confused.
She talked all the way to Spaghetti Junction.
1.1A tangle of overlapping and intertwining lengths or parts.
a spaghetti junction of electrical cables
figurative the result of this political spaghetti junction is that his position as leader is deeply undermined
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Does your wardrobe contain a spaghetti junction of wire hangers and layer upon layer of clothing and accessories?
Our IT room was the most atrocious spaghetti junction with cables going from one place to another and nothing was labelled.
The spaghetti junction of cultural connections is continually mutating - as history is made, as relationships are born or die, and as emotions brighten or fade away.
The political spaghetti junction allows money to flow from corrupter to the corrupted with relative ease, but, in its brain-spinning disorder, it offers near impenetrable barriers to the investigator.
I don't believe that the spaghetti junction of relationships between these organisations can possibly lead to an efficient, well-organised system until a much more rigid hierarchy of command is imposed.
It's prettier from the front than the back - it's a literal spaghetti junction behind these racks - something like 25 mains leads, 30 interconnects of various types, and aerial leads.
Most televisions are connected by wires not just to the aerial, but also a DVD player, a Feeview or Sky box and also a video games console, resulting in a spaghetti junction of cables.