by-pass
English
Etymology
From by- + pass
Noun
by-pass (plural by-passes)
- Alternative form of bypass
- the Colnbrook By-Pass on the A4
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 17-18:
- In The Bus We Loved (2005) Travis Elborough describes the New Road [now named Euston Road and Marylebone Road] as 'London's first by-pass ... a kind of perimeter fence, a here be yokels boundary line between the burgeoning town and the country'.
Anagrams
- pass by