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taxi strip

n. a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport [syn: taxiway]

Usage examples of "taxi strip".

They lowered to the far end of the runway, turned, and came back on the taxi strip.

The BEZA-Mozambique overseas airliner pivoted off the main runway onto a seldom-used taxi strip and dipped its nose as the pilot applied the brakes.

Soon after touchdown it swung away from the commercial terminal and rolled onto a taxi strip toward a cluster of hangars flanked by rows of fighter jets.

As he was levering down the latches that held the door the plane started its engines, blipped them once, wobbled over to a taxi strip .

There was a rush on, but Murdock led the SEALs in a ten-minute double-time workout around the edge of the taxi strip.

At the airport in Rome, Yossarian dumped her out of the plane on the taxi strip, and Hungry Joe took right off for Pianosa again without even cutting his engines.

Other jumbo jets are whining slowly down the taxi strip some fifty yards in front of the fence.

The driver swung onto the narrow service road that ran parallel with the east-west taxi strip on the southern border of the airport.