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  • noun Alternative spelling of off-ramp.

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off +‎ ramp

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Examples

  • The car ahead on the offramp was a black Camaro tilted high in the back, with dual chrome exhaust pipes and green flames snaking over the trunk lid, every detail gleaming, even the wide tires looking new or recently cleaned.

    Offramp David Ackley 2011

  • It took months to get DOT to fix the lights under the highway, he said, and years to get the department to clean the trash out of a fenced-in area across from the offramp, which is still strewn with broken glass.

    New Haven Independent 2009

  • She said the amendment gave lawmakers who were planning to support the original bill an "offramp" to avoid voting on the death penalty itself.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2009

  • House Democrats opted against an "offramp" that would cancel the climate bill's requirements in the event prices went too high.

    Climate Progress 2009

  • She said the amendment gave lawmakers who were planning to support the original bill an "offramp" to avoid voting on the death penalty itself.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2009

  • Well, prepare either for the dolt to drop to 35 with no warning (probably because the driver is in awe of buildings a whole two stories tall, complete with indoor outhouses, too), or for that driver to cut across four lanes of traffic with no signals and no warning to hit an offramp.

    Voyage of discovery (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • You can't expect trains to just follow the HOV offramp.

    Report Says Current 520 Plan “Virtually Precludes” Rail in the Future « PubliCola 2010

  • Imagine that as the guy with the Will-Work-4-Food sign grovels as the freeway offramp, he's rewarded not with some middle-class cheapskate's Starbucks change, but with a small diamond!

    Doug Molitor: Buddy, Can You Spare a Diamond? Doug Molitor 2010

  • Sheriff's officials tell KTLA, that shots were exchanged about 2:30 p.m. on the eastbound 60 Freeway near the Peck Road offramp.

    Road Rage: Gunfight On An El Monte Freeway ktla.com 2011

  • Sheriff's officials tell KTLA, that shots were exchanged about 2:30 p.m. on the eastbound 60 Freeway near the Peck Road offramp.

    Road Rage: Gunfight On An El Monte Freeway ktla.com 2011

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