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backed up adjective[ after verb ] uk /ˌbækt ˈʌp/ us /ˌbækt ˈʌp/ If traffic is backed up, the vehicles have to wait in a long line because there are too many of them: 堵车的 The traffic is backed up for six miles on the road to the coast.交通堵塞长达6英里,一直堵到海边。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases On the road: traffic jams back back someone up bottleneck bumper congestion gridlocked high-traffic jam low-traffic rush hour snarl-up snarled up sock sock something/someone in (with sb) tail back tailback traffic traffic calming traffic jam |