jughandle

jughandle

English

Etymology

jug +‎ handle

Noun

jughandle (plural jughandles)

1. The handle of a jug.
   • 1950, California Folklore Society, Western Folklore

     Informants said that this gulch was so named because the old road made a turn shaped like a jughandle in order to get down into the gulch and across it.

   • 1955, Daniel Talbot, A Treasury of Mountaineering Stories

     ...only the first joints of his fingers would rest on the tiny ledge, pulling on it would weaken his grasp on the jughandle.

2. (US) A ramp or slip road on the right-hand side of the road, used for making left turns.
   • 2006, Lillian Africano, You Know You're in New Jersey When...

     A jughandle is the Jersey way of making a left turn without creating gridlock...