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First known use, by meaning
- from early 2020s Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
gridlock
grid·lockToday it means: A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way. Full definition →
First used early 2020s