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rest stop

[ rest stop ]

noun

  1. a stop made, as during a ride or trip in an automobile, so that one may get refreshments, use a restroom, etc.
  2. a rest area, as a roadside parking or picnic area.


rest stop

noun

  1. the US name for lay-by
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of rest stop1

First recorded in 1970–75
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"Reacher" can be interpreted as a far-right fever dream of America—a land of gorgeous vistas and open roads, with a heartless criminal lurking at rest stops—or as a product of the same.

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I wasn’t looking for good times or a rest stop, though, when I pulled into a Walmart minutes away from the border around 5 p.m. after leaving the mining town of Clifton that morning.

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He had a New Jersey highway rest stop named after him after endorsing successful GOP gubernatorial candidate Christine Todd Whitman.

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The event will take about two hours, walking at a leisurely pace and with time built in for rest stops.

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Footage from the area showed a filling station and rest stop almost completely destroyed, with twisted metal littered over damaged vehicles.

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