Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A narrow mountain pass on the border between eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. It has long been a strategic trade and invasion route. The highest point of the pass is about 1,070 m (3,510 ft).
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- noun a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India
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Examples
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Peshawar through the Khyber Pass is a supply route for the NATO force fighting on the Afghan side of the border.
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The route from Peshawar up to the Afghan border through the Khyber Pass is the most important of two routes through Pakistan.
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- City Paper's living room/favorite Old City dive was called the Khyber Pass (as opposed to the Khyber) in the '80s.
The Clog 2009
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The route from Peshawar up to the border through the Khyber Pass is the most important of two routes through Pakistan.
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The route from Peshawar up to the border through the Khyber Pass is the most important of two routes through Pakistan.
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"70\% of the NATO supplies reach the forces in Afghanistan" through the Khyber Pass, which is on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The Redhunter 2008
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Michael M. Phillips/The Wall Street Journal Juma Khan Rahmudin, right, offers soldiers 30-minute threading sessions, in which he twists thread around unwanted eyebrow hairs and yanks them out in a clean line, at his shop in eastern Afghanistan, 20 miles from the Khyber Pass.
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And his grandsons, something about the Khyber Pass.
At the Home 70 Years Later Barry Basden 2012
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Now 49, he supervises commercial banks adjacent to the Khyber Pass, through which mujahedeen weapons and fighters once flowed.
Launching the Missile That Made History Michael M. Phillips 2011
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I drove east until picking up the nefarious Kunar valley, just north of the Khyber Pass.
A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010
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