cloverleaf
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]cloverleaf (not comparable)
- In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cloverleaf (plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) (see individual senses for plurals)
- (with plural cloverleaves) The leaf of a clover plant.
- (US) (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) A cloverleaf interchange.
- 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
- By the time we got into Tulsa Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Derived terms
[edit]- cloverleaf antenna
- cloverleaf interchange
- cloverleaf model
- clover-leaf roll
- clover-leaf sight
- clover-leaf skull, cloverleaf skull
- cloverleaf stack
- cloverleaf tongue
- clover leaf weevil
- parclo
Translations
[edit]leaf of a clover plant
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cloverleaf interchange — see cloverleaf interchange
Verb
[edit]cloverleaf (third-person singular simple present cloverleafs, present participle cloverleafing, simple past and past participle cloverleafed)
- (intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
- 2003, David Maraniss, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967:
- Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.
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