blacktop
noun
black·top
ˈblak-ˌtäp 
: a bituminous material used especially for surfacing roads
also
: a surface paved with blacktop
blacktop
transitive verb
Examples of blacktop in a Sentence
road crews laying down blacktop
Recent Examples on the Web
Pete Maravich first dribbled a basketball on the blacktops of Aliquippa, northwest of the city.
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Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
The phone shook, pointed at the ground, a blacktop covered in dry leaves.
—Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
Kids across the world, the NFL hopes, can play in the park with friends or on the blacktop at school while having the option to pursue a more competitive path all the way to the Olympics.
—USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
Meaning Sunday’s Busch Light Clash (5 p.m., Ch. 11), with all its quirks and limitations on the quarter-mile Coliseum blacktop, will somehow have to be enough to hold over local racing fans until the series returns at some future date.
—Dennis Pope, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2024
In addition, drivers should be ready for long, narrow stretches of two-lane blacktop without shoulders or turnouts.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
Organizers are also resourcing four-wheel-drive vehicles and all-terrain tires to help ferry medical and other urgent situations to the blacktop.
—Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
The tennis center was, essentially, the barbershop meets the blacktop.
—Rembert Browne, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Saved Stories Whatever basketball’s blue-collar bona fides, whatever its associations with the barbershop and the neighborhood blacktop, its culture has proved hostile to at least one category of everyman: the plumber.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2023
Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
The phone shook, pointed at the ground, a blacktop covered in dry leaves.
—Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
Kids across the world, the NFL hopes, can play in the park with friends or on the blacktop at school while having the option to pursue a more competitive path all the way to the Olympics.
—USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
Meaning Sunday’s Busch Light Clash (5 p.m., Ch. 11), with all its quirks and limitations on the quarter-mile Coliseum blacktop, will somehow have to be enough to hold over local racing fans until the series returns at some future date.
—Dennis Pope, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2024
In addition, drivers should be ready for long, narrow stretches of two-lane blacktop without shoulders or turnouts.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
Organizers are also resourcing four-wheel-drive vehicles and all-terrain tires to help ferry medical and other urgent situations to the blacktop.
—Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
The tennis center was, essentially, the barbershop meets the blacktop.
—Rembert Browne, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Saved Stories Whatever basketball’s blue-collar bona fides, whatever its associations with the barbershop and the neighborhood blacktop, its culture has proved hostile to at least one category of everyman: the plumber.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2023
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blacktop
noun
black·top
-ˌtäp
: a bituminous material (as asphalt) used especially for surfacing roads
also
: a surface paved with blacktop
blacktop
verb
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