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dirt road

noun

  1. an unpaved road.


dirt road

noun

  1. an unsealed country road
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dirt road1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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Example Sentences

Nearby, a harvest crew in straw hats and long sleeves was making quick work of an inconceivable quantity of iceberg lettuce, stacking boxes 10 high on the backs of tractor-trailers lining a dirt road.

If you’re a mountain biker, rock climber, or hunter, you know a thing or two about slogging up endless dirt roads to get to the goods.

You can do it pretty much anywhere there’s a trail, park, dirt road, or golf course with enough snow to cover the ground—no lift lines or flying required.

“The whistle-blowers said Ultimate Concrete went so far as to build a dirt road to expedite illegal border crossings to sites in San Diego, using construction vehicles to block security cameras,” the paper reports.

Along the county’s 300 miles of dirt roads — not to mention its paved ones — Make America Great Again flags and signs were ubiquitous, even weeks after the vote.

The players made their way up the dirt road to the prison in a jolly convoy of dusty Jeeps and Land Cruisers.

Christiansen says she was pulled over by a Border Patrol vehicle on a dirt road about two miles from her home.

She does not want TV trucks lining the dirt road that leads to the unmarked compound.

The march actually performed in that time was not less than fifteen miles, over an execrable dirt road.

As they whirled out on the dirt road leading to the camp he explained to them what he had been doing.

This from outside, the farmer standing on the dirt road, Hall's gift cigarette glowing in his mouth.

There was another road parallel and a half mile to the right, a dirt road according to the map-legend.

Halfway down the road into Berby Hollow was an old dirt road to the right that went along the hill through the woods.

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