service road

noun

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For months, if not years, the shed-like, one-story building at 1350 Hague Ave. sat largely unattended at the edge of a Hamline Avenue service road, on a small spit of land that runs beneath Ayd Mill Road and the Hamline Avenue bridge. Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025 Two people walking on a highway service road in west Fort Worth were struck on Sunday night by a pickup truck driven by a drunken man, police said. Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025 The service road around Acrisure Bounce House will remain fully open. Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025 From service roads leaving store parking lots, drivers can't turn right on red onto 86th Street in either direction. Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for service road

Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of service road was in 1921

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“Service road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/service%20road. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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