blacktop, blacktopping
(noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock
blacktop
(verb) coat with blacktop; “blacktop the driveway”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blacktop (countable and uncountable, plural blacktops)
(US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g, tarmacadam, tarmac). [from 20th c.]
(US, countable) A road so paved.
blacktop (third-person singular simple present blacktops, present participle blacktopping, simple past and past participle blacktopped)
(US) To pave with blacktop. [from 20th c.]
The county first blacktopped that road decades ago
Source: Wiktionary
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
