# Question for non-Americans? Word for "jacknife"?

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**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-word-for-jacknife/829898 "2019-02-20T15:24:54Z")\
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In French the term translates as ‘folding like a wallet’: un camion est mis en portefeuille or un camion est plié en portefeuille.

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Google says there’s now a Belfast band with the same name as the alliterative phrase from Radiohead’s opening track of OK Computer mentioned previously.

Thom Yorke also doesn’t enunciate very well, and I thought it was “jackknifed troubadour” for a while. Probably until I saw the name of the user a couple posts ago (though that was years ago, not just now).

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