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Definition of Shunpike
1. Verb. To take an unnecessarily long route in order to avoid traffic and/or toll booths. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shunpike
1. to travel on side roads to avoid expressways [v -PIKED, -PIKING, -PIKES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shunpike
Literary usage of Shunpike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lew Wallace; an Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"LIII The ride to Stoney Lonesome—Whitelaw Reid—"Agate"—The first order from
Grant—The second—The third—The shunpike— Wallace's Bridge—The countermarch—A ..."
2. Great Speeches by Great Lawyers: A Collection of Arguments and Speeches by William Lamartine Snyder (1901)
"But here is an open shunpike, X, Y, Z, on which Ideas, when we are asleep or
insane, start off and pass by Conscience, and so avoid paying toll to that ..."
3. The Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same Through England by Frederic James Wood (1919)
"Some distance above a small bridge was built which was known as the " shunpike
Bridge," and although involving a longer trip, it diverted much travel from ..."
4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"A shunpike is ... shortening their line of travel to the town in which the roads
terminated, and which would in time be of great utility, is not a shunpike, ..."
5. Adventure Guide to the Champlain and Hudson River Valleys: Including the by Patricia Foulke, Robert Foulke (2001)
"M i II brook Winery, Wing and shunpike Roads, Millbrook, NY 12545, IT 845-677-8383.
... Take Route 82 north three miles to shunpike Road (Route 57). ..."
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