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turnpike
[ turn-pahyk ]
noun
- a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
- (formerly) a barrier set across such a highway to stop passage until a toll has been paid; tollgate.
turnpike
/ ˈtɜːnˌpaɪk /
noun
- between the mid-16th and late 19th centuries
- gates or some other barrier set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
- a road on which a turnpike was operated
- an obsolete word for turnstile
- a motorway for use of which a toll is charged
Word History and Origins
Origin of turnpike1
Word History and Origins
Origin of turnpike1
Example Sentences
We are driving down the New Jersey Turnpike on a raw Sunday morning in March.
He was heading toward home on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when he found himself pulling over.
Jersey Turnpike (v.)—to perform a dance move in which one jams his/her rear end against a man's crotch and then bends over.
In the "good old coaching days" the turnpike tolls paid on a coach running daily from here to London amounted to £1,428 per year.
The place was a field, the first beyond the turnpike gate, and within a mile of the city.
A country girl, riding by a turnpike-road without paying toll, the gate-keeper hailed her and demanded his fee.
Sixty, nay fifty, years ago, there were six toll-houses and turnpike bars between London and Portsmouth.
Chicot stopped at a turnpike, and asked the man if he had seen three travelers pass on mules.
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