Silk Road
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A joking label for an unofficial but highly effective path through a system, organization, or approval chain. In engineering slang, the silk road is the route experienced people use when the formal one is too slow or brittle.
In plain English: An unofficial but efficient path through a process or system.
Example: "Instead of waiting a week on the normal queue, she used the internal silk road and got the staging certificate renewed that afternoon."