bumper-to-bumper

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   used of traffic

   “bumper-to-bumper traffic”

   Similarslow

Questions about bumper-to-bumper

What does bumper-to-bumper mean?

bumper-to-bumper means "used of traffic".

How many syllables are in bumper-to-bumper?

bumper-to-bumper has 5 syllables: bum-per--to--bum-per. The stress falls on "to-".

Is bumper-to-bumper a common word?

bumper-to-bumper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.