shunpike

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of shun +‎ turnpike

Noun

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shunpike (plural shunpikes)

  1. A side road or route.
    • 1988: Joseph Dow's History of Hampton (New Hampshire), →ISBN, (referring to a bridge built to avoid a turnpike toll)
      In 1821 the selectmen were petitioned to lay out a new road in Hampton, beginning at Vittum's corner, so called, [junction of Towle Farm Road & Exeter Road] and running to the line of Hampton Falls at the shunpike bridge, so called.

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Verb

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shunpike (third-person singular simple present shunpikes, present participle shunpiking, simple past and past participle shunpiked)

  1. To travel by side roads so as to avoid the toll roads or turnpikes.

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