blacktopped
4.1
Covered with a layer of black asphalt for roads or driveways
- adjective
- /ˈblækˌtɑpt/
- US
:
asfaltado
- The town recently renovated the park, adding new benches along the blacktopped paths.
Examples
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The delivery truck rolled smoothly down the newly blacktopped road, making its route much easier.
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When he spoke, she could feel his childhood inside him, a solid grid of hamburger stands, summer lawns, blacktopped highways sticky in the sun.
Fiction book (2001) -
After the heavy rain, the blacktopped surface of the street dried quickly under the sun.
Synonyms
How Paved
Surface Forms
blacktopped positive
Morphology
Etymology
Blacktopped is made from the simple parts black and top, like the common word blacktop, which means 'a black road surface'. So something blacktopped is 'covered with that black surface', for example a road or driveway after paving.