Jersey barrier

American  

noun

1. a type of concrete barricade used especially as a highway divider to protect each side from traffic crossing over.

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Etymology

Origin of Jersey barrier

First recorded in 1965–70; so named because such barriers were first used on the (New) Jersey (Turnpike)

Example Sentences

The two vehicles were traveling around 1:40 a.m. on the inner belt between Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road, when a car veered off to the left, hit a Jersey barrier, and caught on fire.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2022

Five years after the Baltimore statues’ removal, the monuments in the city-owned lot off Pulaski Highway in the Pulaski Industrial Area are secured in a metal fence and Jersey barrier enclosure.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022

Some time after that — and after a collision with a cement Jersey barrier — I reluctantly gave up the Hudson River Bikeway.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021

Police said the crash occurred about 6:15 p.m., when a 2014 Chevrolet Sonic sedan struck a Jersey barrier in the southbound lanes of the 2700 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

He Canadian nosepicked the big sub straight into a no-hop downside whip-to-tailtap on the smaller sub, then over-toothed the Jersey barrier, and ended it with a double tailwhip nosepick on a quarter.

From Time Magazine Archive