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blacktop

Pronunciation: /ˈblaktɒp/
chiefly North American
Definition of blacktop

noun

[mass noun]
  • asphalt, tarmacadam, or other black material used for surfacing roads: the shiny blacktop of the drive [as modifier]:blacktop roads
  • [count noun] a road or area surfaced with blacktop: I turned on to the two-lane blacktop

verb (blacktops, blacktopping, blacktopped)

[with object]
  • surface (a road or area) with blacktop:41 km had been blacktopped to date

blacktop in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of blacktop in the US English dictionary
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