dirt road
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Noun
[edit]dirt road (plural dirt roads)
- An unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material.
- Synonym: dirt track
- 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
- A dirt road ran from the highway past the dump, down to a small Negro settlement some five hundred yards beyond the Ewells‘. It was necessary either to back out to the highway or go the full length of the road and turn around; most people turned around in the Negroes’ front yards.
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[edit]an unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
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