Definition of median strip
: a paved or planted strip dividing a highway into lanes according to direction of travel
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The bike lanes and the median strip (also painted on and now difficult to see) were added.
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In the video, the victim, Elaine Herzberg, 49, appears to be illegally jaywalking from a median strip across two lanes of traffic on a dark road.
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The man’s vehicle rolled over onto the median strip north of exit 14 just before 8 p.m., a State Police spokesman said.
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Irrigation of median strips by cities and counties.
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She also is charged with felony vandalism for damaging a median strip in trying to cross into oncoming traffic, Bridgett said.
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On sidewalks, median strips and amid the brick dust, mud and rubble of the 38 buildings that collapsed in Mexico’s 7.1 earthquake, impromptu memorials to victims and rescuers have sprung up, as the capital begins to come to terms with its losses.
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First Known Use of median strip
1939
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Definition of median strip for English Language Learners
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: a grassy or paved area that divides a highway so that traffic going in one direction is kept separate from traffic going in the opposite direction
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