amber gambler

noun

A driver of a road vehicle who accelerates when the traffic lights change from green to amber (instead of stopping, as required by law), gambling that no vehicle will cross his or her path; a driver who starts off when the traffic lights show red and amber together, but not yet green.

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Meanings

nounamber gambler (plural amber gamblers)

plural amber gamblers

  1. UKidiomaticA driver of a road vehicle who accelerates when the traffic lights change from green to amber (instead of stopping, as required by law), gambling that no vehicle will cross his or her path; a driver who starts off when the traffic lights show red and amber together, but not yet green.

    The sins the foundation has identified include eating at the wheel, becoming a traffic-light hopping "amber gambler" and drinking and driving.

    2007 December 24, “Drivers warned over the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’”, in Bolton News, UK, retrieved 29 Aug 2011
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