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cone off

British

verb

(tr, adverb) to close (one carriageway of a motorway) by placing warning cones across it

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Sir Iain said he took the cone off his head and turned round.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022

“We moved the inverted cone off center to build in left-right control,” Dipert said.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 10, 2020

He lashes himself to the bendy trunk and then reaches out with sticky gloves, twists a lime-colored cone off a bough, and chucks it over his shoulder.

From National Geographic • Dec. 21, 2017

Wilmot had to cone off and maintain a people- and vehicle-free “bracket” along the roadway to give the bruin space to cross over.

From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2016

"If Etna shot its cone off during the night I don't believe it would wake you!" laughed Everard.

From The Princess of the School by Wiles, Frank

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