queue — OET · Shobdo

queue British

noun

1 there was a queue of people waiting for the bus:

line, row, column, file, chain, string, stream;

procession, train, succession, progression, cavalcade, sequence, series;

waiting list, reserve list;

North American breadline, wait list, backup, waiting line;

British, informal crocodile.

2 he was sitting in a taxi, stuck in a queue along Knightsbridge:

traffic jam, jam, tailback, stream, gridlock;

North American line;

informal traffic snarl;

British, informal snarl-up.

verb

we queued for ice creams:

line up, form lines, get into rows/columns, fall in, file, walk/move in line;

British stand in a queue, form a queue, queue up;

North American wait in line, form a line;

British, informal form a crocodile.

queue Oxford Dictionary of English