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Wiktionary
turnoff

n. 1 A road or path that branches off from a main one 2 A distasteful or uninteresting event

WordNet
turnoff
  1. n. something causing antagonism or loss of interest [syn: negative stimulation]

  2. a side road where you can turn off; "I missed the turnoff and went 15 miles out of my way"

Usage examples of "turnoff".

Iggy soon had them across to the south side of the canyon and onto the road leading to the Bandelier turnoff, and heading further west, across the Jemez to Cuba.

When he finally got himself into gear he hurried down the freeway to the Chula Vista turnoff, swung inland, took the Otay Valley shunt toward the unmonitored county roads.

He had barely passed the turnoff toward Madrone when the vibration shuddered through his rental car.

Cars were lined up at the Madrone turnoff, their left-turn blinker lights signaling intent to go east up the mountain.

After she passes a wrecking shop and a market and a tiny post office, she spies the turnoff James Morris has told her about-a swampy stretch of pickerelweed and brackish water that was once a swimming hole with exceedingly warm temperatures.

Shortly before they reached the turnoff to Abilene, they began to notice objects scattered on the highway: first colored pills and capsules, then a broken bottle, articles of clothing, strips of rubber from a tire, black skid marks on the pavement, and finally, as they rounded a gentle curve, the bus itself lying on its side beside the road, pieces of it strewn behind, and a jagged, doorlike piece of the rear-left side ripped up.

We took the 32 turnoff, going west toward Chico, and almost immediately approached the gravel parking lot of a bamlike restaurant.

But long about the four-oh-one turnoff to Butluh, Merluhn, it'd got so gadhawful bad awn the road you couldn' see more'n ten foot ahead an' the wipers won't no good at-tall.

His first thought wasn’t comforting: if the lady with the sad, sexy mouth, stubborn chin, and baggy black sweat suit hadn’t noticed the plainclothes cop hanging around the turnoff to the cottage, she was either too stupid or too innocent for whatever game Kyle was playing.

He was almost to the turnoff onto the cycleway to Northfield, where the Rawlins home was.

It had taken him an hour and a half to get to Oxford, which was the turnoff for Anniston to the north I of the interstate.

Then we drove back to the turnoff that would take us to Yeamon's beach house.

A pickup truck flying a checkered flag met them at the taxiway turnoff and led them to a new hangar, where a dozen soldiers of the Air Service, Argentine Army, were waiting to push the Lockheed into a hangar.

Somewhere near the Manteca turnoff a quartet of Hangmen from El Cerrito came thundering past.

The road he was on was forcing him ever more eastward, toward the central part of the Barona-Nordau farming area, and there hadn't been a right-hand turnoff for a kilometer or two.