shunpike

English

Etymology

Blend of shun +‎ turnpike

Noun

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.

Translations

Translations

• German: mautfreie Strecke (toll-free section)
• Italian: normale (it) (normal [route])

Verb

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.

Translations

Translations

• Italian: farsi (it) la normale (to take the normal route)