# When all four of your turn signals are blinking, what do you call that?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-all-four-of-your-turn-signals-are-blinking-what-do-you-call-that/253338>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 3, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-all-four-of-your-turn-signals-are-blinking-what-do-you-call-that/253338 "2004-07-03T04:14:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![generica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@generica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/generica)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-all-four-of-your-turn-signals-are-blinking-what-do-you-call-that/253338/41 "2004-07-03T23:47:55Z")

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I always refer to them as “Sorry Lights”.

(I’m Vancouver Island [BC] raised, with Californian parents, FWIW.)

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-all-four-of-your-turn-signals-are-blinking-what-do-you-call-that/253338/42 "2004-07-04T00:33:05Z")

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UK. I call em “fuzwazzles”

(Joking. I call em Hazard lights)

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-all-four-of-your-turn-signals-are-blinking-what-do-you-call-that/253338/43 "2004-07-04T02:09:59Z")

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> [@zweisamkeit](#):
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> Born and raised in the Detroit area, and we call them “flashers”.
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> Then again, we call turn signals “blinkers”, so make of that what you will.

I’m also from the Detroit area, but call them “hazards”. It used to say, “H” on the knob that turned them on. I thought this stood for “hazards”.

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**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-all-four-of-your-turn-signals-are-blinking-what-do-you-call-that/253338/44 "2004-07-04T02:20:25Z")

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> [@Green Bean](#):
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> Could be a regional thing , even within Long Island. Those folks over on the east end do have some peculiar habits…

Well, FWIW, I’m from southwest Nassau, so I’m with you on thinking those east enders are strange folk. 🙂

I think I’m going to start polling my friends to see what terminology they use.

Does anyone use “ticker” for blinker? Someone I knew used that word, and we all found it rather odd.

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**Author:** ![Morelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Morelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morelin)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-all-four-of-your-turn-signals-are-blinking-what-do-you-call-that/253338/45 "2004-07-04T04:33:03Z")

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> [@saramamalana](#):
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> Well, FWIW, I’m from southwest Nassau, so I’m with you on thinking those east enders are strange folk. 🙂

I lived just over the Suffolk border. Near Amityville.

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