blacktop

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈblæktɒp/

Noun

blacktop

1. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac). [from 20th c.]
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 284:

     Then I was around the hill on the blacktop and in another country.

2. (US, countable) A road so paved.

Verb

blacktop (blacktops, present participle blacktopping; past blacktopped, past participle blacktopped)

1. (US) To pave with blacktop. [from 20th c.]

   The county first blacktopped that road decades ago

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