belt highway
An American informal term for a beltway — a loop road or ring road that encircles or partially encircles a city, allowing drivers to bypass the urban core.
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An American informal term for a beltway — a loop road or ring road that encircles or partially encircles a city, allowing drivers to bypass the urban core. 'Belt highway' is a straightforward descriptive alternative to 'beltway,' more common in some regional dialects than others. These roads are known for their rush-hour gridlock, confusing interchanges, and the sense that you are perpetually driving in a loop without actually arriving anywhere.
She avoided the downtown altogether and just took the belt highway straight to the airport on the other side of the city.
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(USA) beltway; a freeway that encircles a city.
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(US, automotive) A highway that loops around the perimeter of a major city.
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(US) A freeway that encircles a city.
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An American term for a ring road or circumferential freeway that loops around a city, allowing through traffic to bypass the urban core. The most famous is the Capital Beltway (I-495) encircling Washington D.C., which gave rise to the political idiom 'inside the Beltway' — meaning the insular, self-referential world of D.C. politics and government. As political slang, 'Beltway' is shorthand for the disconnected elite of Washington: 'Beltway thinking,' 'Beltway media,' 'Beltway insiders.'
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(chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, UK) A circumferential highway around a town, city, or other conurbation.