short lines
Quick checkout lanes
Short lines refers to queues or waiting lines that have few people in them, making for quick service.
The phrase appears in contexts like airport security, grocery stores, or amusement parks where wait times vary.
I picked the checkout with the shortest lines.
In poetry and typography, short lines can also describe text formatted with fewer words per line than typical prose.
- queuesOrderly waiting arrangements
- brevityShortness of expression
- briefShort in duration
- curtAbruptly rude in speech
- funicularsCable-drawn incline trains
a few words · abrupt · concise · spurs · snippet · streetcars · terse · succinct · tramways · stubs · tracks · haiku · railroad · jotted · waiting · mountain railways · commuter rail · light rail
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- railwaystrains, train, locomotives, locomotive, tracks
- railway termsplatform, tunnel, viaduct, junctions, sidings