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black-top en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of blacktop.
Using very simple language, it tries to raise awareness of how badly we are treating the earth and how many of the things I remember from when I was growing up have vanished or are covered with black-top.
2003, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits, page 9:The black-top felt rugged under his jaw and cheek, yet warm from the moisture.
2008, Jade Cameron, Bryony Wynne-Jones, Freedom Rider, page 1:I assigned that area to him and drove my car further north on the black-top.
2012, Charles O. Maul, Can Do in Yottabytes, page 154:
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black-top en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of blacktop.
We have that there, too, and they black-topped it.
1972, United States. Commission on Highway Beautification, Highway beautification:You wouldn't by any chance remember whether they black-topped that trail from Aztec to Dulce?
1996, William Eastlake, Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy, page 37:In Lincoln County, Minn., we consider it advisable to black-top our roads when the traffic count reaches 100 vehicles a day.
1950, Better Roads - Volume 20, page 37:
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