thruway

or through·way

[ throo-wey ]

noun

1. a limited-access toll highway providing a means of direct transportation between distant areas for high-speed automobile traffic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thruway¹

First recorded in 1940–45; thru + way ¹

Example Sentences

Ten bands of color—each five separated by a narrow clear strip, detailed the thruway.

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Then a five-day resupply and briefing period and back onto another thruway.

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And as far as thruway traffic control and authority was concerned, state and national boundaries actually didn't exist.

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Three minutes later, they emerged from the tunnel into the red patrol lane of Continental Thruway 26-West.

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Then they hit the thruway—nine of them packed into the jalopy—the oldest one just seventeen years old.

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