interborough

[ in-ter-bur-oh, -buhr-oh ]

adjective

1. between boroughs.
2. of, relating to, or located in two or more boroughs.

noun

1. a transportation system operating between boroughs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interborough¹

First recorded in 1900–05; inter- + borough

Example Sentences

This platform used to be part of the Interborough Rapid Transit, or IRT.

From The Daily Beast

A station of the new Interborough subway will be near the corner of Fulton and Clark streets.

From Project Gutenberg

But apparently, too, there must be life along the uptown route of the Interborough.

From Project Gutenberg

An hour and a half every day for more than twenty years he had spent in the great underground system of the Interborough.

From Project Gutenberg

Down he hurried into the subway station, and dropped his tithe of tribute into the multiple maw of the Interborough.

From Project Gutenberg

Those who go by the Interborough tube will probably find that changed conditions have rendered many of these rules obsolete.

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