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cloverleafs

  • plural
    of cloverleaf.
    cloverleaf
    noun
    a road arrangement, resembling a four-leaf clover in form, for permitting easy traffic movement between two intersecting high-speed highways. One highway passes over the other, and both are joined by a system of curved feeder roads permitting vehicles to enter and leave the highways.

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We’re going fast around all the cloverleafs and overpasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

Routes 95, 29, 32 and 1 and local roads and cloverleafs are filled with trash, including rubber from tires, mattresses, car parts, bags of trash and debris.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

He loves the system — the cloverleafs, the underpasses.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2020

The highways on Long Island were twisted into cloverleafs!

From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2010

Freeway cloverleafs eliminate the need for intersection stopping; limited access banishes blind entrances and overly frequent inflows of traffic.

From Time Magazine Archive