"black-top" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "black-tops",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "black-topping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "black-topped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "black-topped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "black-top (third-person singular simple present black-tops, present participle black-topping, simple past and past participle black-topped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "blacktop"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1950, Better Roads - Volume 20, page 37",
          "text": "In Lincoln County, Minn., we consider it advisable to black-top our roads when the traffic count reaches 100 vehicles a day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, United States. Commission on Highway Beautification, Highway beautification",
          "text": "We have that there, too, and they black-topped it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, William Eastlake, Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy, page 37",
          "text": "You wouldn't by any chance remember whether they black-topped that trail from Aztec to Dulce?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of blacktop"
      ],
      "id": "en-black-top-en-verb--cp8cQrU",
      "links": [
        [
          "blacktop",
          "blacktop#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "black-top"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "black-tops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "black-top (plural black-tops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "blacktop"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits, page 9",
          "text": "Using very simple language, it tries to raise awareness of how badly we are treating the earth and how many of the things I remember from when I was growing up have vanished or are covered with black-top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jade Cameron, Bryony Wynne-Jones, Freedom Rider, page 1",
          "text": "The black-top felt rugged under his jaw and cheek, yet warm from the moisture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Charles O. Maul, Can Do in Yottabytes, page 154",
          "text": "I assigned that area to him and drove my car further north on the black-top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of blacktop"
      ],
      "id": "en-black-top-en-noun--cp8cQrU",
      "links": [
        [
          "blacktop",
          "blacktop#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "black-top"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "black-tops",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "black-topping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "black-topped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "black-topped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "black-top (third-person singular simple present black-tops, present participle black-topping, simple past and past participle black-topped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "blacktop"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1950, Better Roads - Volume 20, page 37",
          "text": "In Lincoln County, Minn., we consider it advisable to black-top our roads when the traffic count reaches 100 vehicles a day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, United States. Commission on Highway Beautification, Highway beautification",
          "text": "We have that there, too, and they black-topped it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, William Eastlake, Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy, page 37",
          "text": "You wouldn't by any chance remember whether they black-topped that trail from Aztec to Dulce?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of blacktop"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blacktop",
          "blacktop#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "black-top"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "black-tops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "black-top (plural black-tops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "blacktop"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits, page 9",
          "text": "Using very simple language, it tries to raise awareness of how badly we are treating the earth and how many of the things I remember from when I was growing up have vanished or are covered with black-top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jade Cameron, Bryony Wynne-Jones, Freedom Rider, page 1",
          "text": "The black-top felt rugged under his jaw and cheek, yet warm from the moisture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Charles O. Maul, Can Do in Yottabytes, page 154",
          "text": "I assigned that area to him and drove my car further north on the black-top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of blacktop"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blacktop",
          "blacktop#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "black-top"
}