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open road

noun, adj — 2 senses

open road

nounalso spelled open-road

Etymology From open + road.

1

The part of the road system that is away from urban and suburban areas and on which large distances can be travelled without needing to frequently slow for traffic or intersections.

  • He had left the suburbs and was out on the open road.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 75:

open-road

adj
1

Of or relating to travelling on the open road.

  • They improved on their UFOV test and undertook fewer dangerous maneuvers in an open-road driving evaluation.2014, Joan T. Erber, Lenore T. Szuchman, Great Myths of Aging, page 18:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for open road and open-road.