turnpike English

Meaning turnpike meaning

What does turnpike mean?

Definitions in simple English

turnpike Noun

— A turnpike is a road (now usually a freeway) that charges tolls for use.

— A turnpike is also the gate placed in a road to stop travelers until they pay tolls.

turnpike

— noun (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid

— noun an expressway on which tolls are collected

Synonyms turnpike synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as turnpike?

turnpike English » English

pike

motorway

highway

toll road

thruway

throughway

superhighway

state highway

freeway

expressway

super highway

viaduct

toll gate

roadway

road

railway underbridge

railroad underbridge

flyover

flying bridge

dry bridge

barrier

autoroute

Examples turnpike examples

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Broken railing on Tarpon Springs Turnpike was due to auto smash.

The old turnpike used to run right across those foothills over there.

Just because some kid smacks into his wife on the turnpike. doesn't make it a crime to be 17 years old!

It's just that crazy conjure man that sells trinkets on the turnpike.

Today we heard. from a turnpike toll collector.

Marcie, get me the Turnpike Authority.

That's Turnpike. She did 26,500.

She's called Turnpike cos you gotta pay to get on and pay to get off.

From the garage to the Jersey Turnpike, six minutes, 58 seconds.

I'm just going to get on the turnpike. That's it. I'm gone.

Jericho's Pizza, down Route 111 at the Jericho Turnpike.

We're on the turnpike.

I'll call the Turnpike Authority, see if there have been any accidents.

I'll take the Bodmin turnpike.

We'd best make for the turnpike.

The farmhouse north of town on Polk Road, eleven miles out on the turnpike.

I'M ON A TURNPIKE NOW.

That's Turnpike.

I'm just going to get on the turnpike.

You take the turnpike, I'll go across country.

I think we should take the turnpike.

The turnpike ran across the hills.

A thousand cars on the turnpike, they find mine.

Now listen, my sister Susan stopped off in the ladies' room at a holiday inn on the Massachusetts turnpike, and she slit her wrists with a stainless steel razor blade.

As clear as the signs on the turnpike, the bird that attacked Laura Palmer is a client of this office.

He escaped, and the police spotted him on the New Jersey Turnpike.

I told you not to take the turnpike.

He's not cleared to leave Manhattan, but he's out of town stuck on the New Jersey turnpike.

I'm on the Berlin turnpike, and I take a left-hand turn, and I've rehearsed this 500 times, getting here, and I somehow got lost.

You see the world through John Malkovich's eyes and then after about 15 minutes, you're spit out into a ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike.

I'll meet you on the side of the road by the New Jersey Turnpike.

The turnpike westbound slows at Valley Forge 24.

Listen, you know the corner of Hempstead Turnpike and Uniondale?

You can put a best face on a turnpike collision, I'm not moved.