black-top

English

Verb

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

1. 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)

1. 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.