"Malfunction Junction" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Attested in military publications from the early Cold War years. Perhaps popularized, and widened in sense, by the 1973 Schoolhouse Rock! segment \"Conjunction Junction\".",
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          "text": "The center of the new city was on the Clark Fork River, one and one half miles from what would become Malfunction Junction, along the newly built military road (now an interstate highway) and what became a railroad line,[…]",
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      "glosses": [
        "A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion."
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        "(US, informal) A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion."
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        "(US, informal) A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion."
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