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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
off-ramp
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I took an off-ramp and pulled over for a while at the edge of the desert.
▪ It was time to ease back over to the slow lane, take another off-ramp, let the car cool.
▪ We passed it, took the next off-ramp, and circled back along Frontage Road, turning left into the main driveway.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
off-ramp

1954, from off (adv.) + ramp (n.).

Wiktionary
off-ramp

alt. A segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic onto ordinary roads from a freeway n. A segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic onto ordinary roads from a freeway

Wikipedia
Off-Ramp
For a highway off-ramp see, Interchange (road).

Off-Ramp is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe who first appeared in the Young Heroes in Love series.

Usage examples of "off-ramp".

Nicholas took the Mariposa Street off-ramp into San Francisco and drove toward Potrero Hill.

I spotted an off-ramp that boasted the international symbols for food and potty chairs.

Donovan was waiting near a cluster of people by the Aer Lingus off-ramp.

According to his notes, you spotted a girl hitchhiking near the Fair Isle off-ramp July 29, 1969.

I checked my city map and drew a bead on my destinationa tract of middle-class homes just beyond the Fair Isle off-ramp, where Cloris Bargo had seen the girl.

A quarter-mile from the off-ramp, a bullet-pocked black Oldsmobile cruises past her, right-turn signal flashing.

K6ATX did not break the silence again until they were pulling into the off-ramp leading down to Gaviota State Beach Park.

Arthur drove them across the heavy, gray-girdered San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, almost empty of traffic, taking the 480 off-ramp to the Embarcadero and turning south for China Basin Street and the Central Basin.

Pitt gained almost ten seconds before they regrouped and roared down the off-ramp onto the frontage road and resumed the chase.

Around noon, Luther made a motion for the next off-ramp, and she trailed him to a Gulf station, pulling in and watching as he got out, came to her car.

Over the station speakers in the hall the newscaster was headlining the Los Angeles razorblade slayings, commenting on the discovery that morning of an eleventh young woman, nude and with throat sliced open, in the bushes near the Silverlake off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway.

I saw the sign for the shopping center and took the off-ramp with my fingers crossed.

Buddy watched until the boy was taken by the curve of the off-ramp, and he was staring out at space and the enormous yellow-and-purple sign of a shopping mall.