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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slip road
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Here, cars are reversing back up a slip road because the way ahead is blocked.
▪ It wants to add a northbound entry slip road and a southbound exit slip road to the junction.
▪ Protesters also stopped traffic on a motorway slip road.
▪ The car seemed to take ages to reach the point where the slip road entered the autobahn.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
slip road

slip road \slip road\ n. a short road giving access to an expressway [British] ``in England they call an access road a slip road.''

Syn: access road, slip road.

Wiktionary
slip road

n. A segment of roadway that joins a motorway to ordinary roads (in either direction)

WordNet
slip road

n. a short road giving access to an expressway; "in England they call an access road a slip road" [syn: access road]

Usage examples of "slip road".

After an hour of this, by the dash panel clock, he swung the truck on to a slip road.

We were well inside the tunnel and up ahead it was so black we could have been on the slip road to Hades.

He climbed into his battered but adored old black Golf GTi, squealed the tyres, and headed out past the islands of petrol pumps and on to the slip road back towards the motorway.

When Stone returned, he was unlikely to notice Conti's camper since it stood oh the grass verge on the St Andreasberg side of the slip road.

In the month after his drive with Leonard, Clive had four near crashes, he was shot at once and had two knife fights on a slip road.