black top

English

Noun

black top (plural black tops)

1. Alternative form of blacktop
   • 2007, Lee Wells, Escape From Mississippi:

     One day the county put the word out that they was going to put down black top on the rock roads.

   • 2008, Floyd Grooms, Global Warming, A Different Approach, page 12:

     Maybe they will pass a bill requiring an investigation into just how much black top and concrete is used in the transportation system.

   • 2012, Ron Hester, Inside My Mind, page 203:

     Rolling down the black top little white broken lines swiftly passing my face, I look like I'm going through a time warp slicing through the darkness of space.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black,‎ top.

Verb

black top (third-person singular simple present black tops, present participle black topping, simple past and past participle black topped)

1. Alternative form of blacktop
   • 1955, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Distribution Problems, page 1025:

     We won't black top your property for you because this is your own property, but we will loan you the money interest free if you will black top your driveway, providing you will give us another lease on that other 50 feet of land that you bought free.

   • 1969, Annual Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Steuben County:

     The State will black top the road and stabilize the shoulders before returning it to the town.

   • 2015, Ningthouja Lancha, Kangla Lanpung Volume XI Issue 1: Winter 2015:

     The PWD will black top the road and immediately either the PHED or Power Corporation will dig up the road to lay pipes or cables.