slip road

1. 1.

   a short road giving access to an expressway

   “in Britain they call an access road a slip road”

   Synonymsaccess road

   Broaderroad

Questions about slip road

What does slip road mean?

slip road means "a short road giving access to an expressway".

What is another word for slip road?

Close synonyms include access road. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slip road a common word?

slip road is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.