turnpike
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈtɜrnˌpaɪk/
- US
:
autopista de peaje
- Travelers are advised to stay off the New Jersey Turnpike.
- a turnpike road
You live beyond the Mass Turnpike entrance to the centre city.
- You live beyond the Mass Turnpike entrance to the centre city.
- They're supported by the lobby that builds turnpikes for God's sake.
- So it's like, and what's on the Turnpike is not, you know, Bruce, it's a little egg.
Examples
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Instead, we see plans to sell off our parks, our turnpikes, and other important public resources.
Blog text (5) -
"About another hour to the Jersey Turnpike, and then two hours after that.
Fiction book (2000) -
You live beyond the Mass Turnpike entrance to the centre city.
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I could tell you every town along the turnpike.
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It's near the Union Turnpike.
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We should stay focused on keeping the turnpike in the hands of the people of Ohio.
Blog text (8) -
I'll meet you on the side of the road by the New Jersey Turnpike.
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We can stop on the turnpike for some supper, and we'll be home by midnight.
Fiction book (1990) -
We've traveled this smelly stretch of the Jersey Turnpike past Port Newark and the chemical refineries a hundred times.
Fiction book (1995) -
We found a toll receipt from the turnpike on the floor of your car.
Synonyms
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2.8
A wide road for fast traffic with few places to enter or exit
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2.5
A road you must pay to drive on, often a highway
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3.7
A road you must pay to use
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Turnpike comes from an old gate made of a long pole that could be turned across the road; the parts turn mean 'to move' and pike mean 'spear' or 'long pole'. So a turnpike became the name for a main road where people had to pay to pass.