blacktop
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈblæktɑp/
- US
:
asfalto
- The construction workers delivered fresh blacktop to repair the damaged part of the parking lot.
Later, Carl and Margie drove out of the fields and onto the blacktop leading to town.
- Later, Carl and Margie drove out of the fields and onto the blacktop leading to town.
Examples
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Just beyond the hangar is a narrow blacktop landing strip running parallel to the Haul Road.
Fiction book (1993) -
The maintenance crew is applying blacktop to the new section of road to ensure a smooth surface.
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This is my side of the blacktop.
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How about we settle this on the blacktop?
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Stay on the blacktop now till you're clear out of the valley.
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Heat waves rise up from the blacktop of the freeway.
Fiction book (1999) -
Later, Carl and Margie drove out of the fields and onto the blacktop leading to town.
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A single used tire sits inexplicably on the cracked blacktop of the play yard.
Fiction book (1997) -
I kept speeding along on the blacktop road that was accentuated by overhanging, gnarled black branches.
Fiction book (1995) -
We hiked a narrow blacktop road between dry ditches clogged with briars, poison oak, and bull thistles.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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3.9
A dark sticky material used to make roads and keep roofs dry
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7.4
A thick black sticky substance used to make roads and roofs waterproof
A black material like tar spread over crushed stone to make roads or parking lots smooth
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blacktop as a noun comes from the same parts black meaning 'black' and top meaning 'surface'. So blacktop names the dark paving material or the paved surface itself, which is why people call a paved playground or road 'blacktop'.