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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
beltway

term in U.S. for a ring highway around an urban area, especially Interstate 495 around Washington, D.C., the Capital Beltway, completed 1964; from belt (n.) + way (n.). Figurative for "Washington, D.C., and its culture" for better or worse, since c.1978.

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beltway

n. (context US English) A freeway that encircles a city.

Usage examples of "beltway".

This led to the construction of the Beltway, and although Kennedy, tragically, did not live to see it, those of us who were alive at the time will never forget where we were on August 17, 1964, when America held its breath as a new national hero, Parnell M.

For Cassidy, there were too many Beltway engagements, too many colleagues to romance and inveigle and bully and cajole into doing the right thing.

I found them just short of the Beltway, in the middle of the three lanes.

Kreiss nosed his rented Ford 150 van into the truck stop off the Van Dorn Street Beltway exit in Alexandria.

His exit guide listed only two such facilities on or near the Beltway, not counting trucking terminals.

He got back out onto the Beltway and headed east, toward the Wilson Bridge and the crossing into Maryland.

Kreiss was sitting in the parking lot of a fast-food joint three blocks from the Beltway interchange with U.

Galantz caught up with us on the Beltway, gave us a friendly phone call.

He told the voice they would take the Beltway to 1-95, and then straight down to Aquia.

Just today you had an article about a car accident on the Beltway where five people got killed, but you never said it was a bloodbath.

Lacking a traditional organized crime network, it had become the battleground of a drug war among competing groups: Jamaicans, Haitians, New York elements, and home-grown Washingtonians competing for the lucrative trade to service the insatiable demand of the Beltway professionals.

His hands were relaxed on the steering wheel, though his eyes constantly scanned the beltway in front of them.

I could see the double-tiered roadway of the Route 495 Beltway, and a forest of radio-TV antennas off among the checkerboard of neat little suburban houses that covered the once-green and rolling hills.

This, Murdock thought with a trembling, barely contained fury, was the reality of war in the Balkans, something the politicians and the Beltway bureaucrats never seemed able to squarely face.

At the CIA building, enveloped in summer foliage just off the Beltway, the Director passed the query to the Deputy Director Operations.