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black-top (A blackish material used for surfacing roads, etc.; a road, etc., surfaced with this material. Freq. attrib. Hence as v., to surface (a road) with black-top; black-topping vbl. n. 1931 Amer. City Oct. 112/1 This was done by adding a black border for the letters and other characters, which for black top pavements are yellow. 1940 Topeka Jrnl. 22 Apr. 3 Strewed some of the victims on the blacktop. 1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 112 Juan..turned right into the black-top road. 1957 ‘F. Richards' Practise to Deceive ii. 18 Next spring would be time enough to think of black-topping. Ibid. 26 She took it easy, backing up the narrow blacktop. OED Alexander Demidov); blacktop (chiefly US and Canadian 1) a bituminous mixture used for paving 2) a road paved with this mixture. CED Alexander Demidov) |
