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dirt roads

dirt roads is the plural of dirt road.

Meaning of dirt road

Noun

dirt road (plural dirt roads)

  1. An unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material.
    • 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.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    dirt track

Questions about dirt roads

What is dirt roads the plural of?
Dirt roads is the plural of dirt road.

Words near dirt roads in the dictionary

  1. dirt naps
  2. dirt pie
  3. dirt pies
  4. dirt poor
  5. dirt road
  6. dirt roads
  7. dirt sandwich
  8. dirt sandwiches
  9. dirt stache
  10. dirt sticks
  11. dirt track

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