Traffic maneuver.

The answer

UTURN

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UTURN answer page.

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1982; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for UTURN

Every other clue in this collection answered by UTURN, most used first.

• One-eighty - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Complete reversal - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Road reversal - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• About-face - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Reversal - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• 180-degree maneuver - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• 180, so to speak - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• 180 - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Driver's reversal - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Driver's maneuver - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Turnpike no-no - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Driver's 180 - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Motorist's reversal - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Reversal on the road - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• 180 on the road - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Driver's one-eighty - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Traffic light color - AMBER, used 38 times
• Traffic tie-up - SNARL, used 35 times
• Traffic cone - PYLON, used 33 times
• Traffic jam - TIEUP, used 32 times
• Join the flow of traffic - MERGE, used 18 times
• Traffic tangle - SNARL, used 18 times

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