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語源

From black +‎ top.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæktɒp/

名詞

blacktop (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 blacktops)

1. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac). [from 20th c.]
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 284:

     Then I was around the hill on the blacktop and in another country.

2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
   • 2008, Making Sense of Social Networks in Schools‎^[1], Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press and the American Association of School Administrators, →ISBN, page 64:

     At one time, students were able to play basketball on the blacktop behind the school building, and teachers were also able to park on campus. Now, teachers park on the streets, and there is no place for students to let off steam with casual, non-organized sports before or after school.

   • 2020, Hong, Soo, Natural Allies: Hope and Possibility in Teacher-Family Partnerships‎^[2], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Education Press, →ISBN:

     From the dismissive receptionist in the main office to the lines on the school blacktop for dropping off and picking up children, schools often make parents feel that they must justify their presence.

上位語

• (paved area on a schoolground): schoolyard (英国用法)

動詞

blacktop (三人称単数 現在形 blacktops, 現在分詞 blacktopping, 過去形および過去分詞形 blacktopped)

1. (US) To pave with blacktop. [from 20th c.]

   The county first blacktopped that road decades ago