Blacktop

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈblæktÉ’p/

Origin

From black + top.

Full definition of blacktop

Noun

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

1. (US) To pave with blacktop. from 20th c.The county first blacktopped that road decades ago