blacktop
[blak-top]
- a bituminous substance, usually asphalt, for paving roads, parking lots, playgrounds, etc.
- a road covered with blacktop.
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- pertaining to or surfaced with blacktop: a blacktop driveway.
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- to pave with blacktop.
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Origin of blacktop
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Examples from the Web for blacktop
Contemporary Examples
The place is twenty-six miles north on blacktop, another three and a half over gravel.
She walked down the bluestone and blacktop driveway and through shadows thrown by the branches of seven leafless oak trees.
Miami Heat star Chris Bosh admits he loves nothing more than engaging in a fierce, hard-fought battle on the blacktop.
Historical Examples
He turned off the blacktop and started down the rutted path.
Lease to DoomsdayLee Archer
Zircon took a blacktop road to the west, close to the base of the mountain.
The Flaming MountainHarold Leland Goodwin
At the end of the blacktop, he and Scotty got out and examined the road surface.
The Flaming MountainHarold Leland Goodwin
On the Golp Terrace, as the blacktop island was called, everyone and everything conformed—or else.
A Knyght Ther WasRobert F. Young
Rounding a curve in a narrow, blacktop road, he saw the home behind a grove of trees.
Occasion for DisasterGordon Randall Garrett
blacktop
- a bituminous mixture used for paving
- a road paved with this mixture
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Word Origin and History for blacktop
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