black-top

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English

Verb

black-top (third-person singular simple present black-tops, present participle black-topping, simple past and past participle black-topped)

Alternative form of blacktop
- 1950, Better Roads - Volume 20, page 37:
  In Lincoln County, Minn., we consider it advisable to black-top our roads when the traffic count reaches 100 vehicles a day.
- 1972, United States. Commission on Highway Beautification, Highway beautification:
  We have that there, too, and they black-topped it.
- 1996, William Eastlake, Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy, page 37:
  You wouldn't by any chance remember whether they black-topped that trail from Aztec to Dulce?

Noun

black-top (plural black-tops)

Alternative form of blacktop
- 2003, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits, page 9:
  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.
- 2008, Jade Cameron, Bryony Wynne-Jones, Freedom Rider, page 1:
  The black-top felt rugged under his jaw and cheek, yet warm from the moisture.
- 2012, Charles O. Maul, Can Do in Yottabytes, page 154:
  I assigned that area to him and drove my car further north on the black-top.

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