shunpike

English

Etymology

Blend of shun +‎ turnpike

Noun

shunpike (plural shunpikes)

1. A side road or route.
   • 1988: Joseph Dow's History of Hampton (New Hampshire), →ISBN, (referring to a bridge built to avoid a turnpike toll)

     In 1821 the selectmen were petitioned to lay out a new road in Hampton, beginning at Vittum's corner, so called, [junction of Towle Farm Road & Exeter Road] and running to the line of Hampton Falls at the shunpike bridge, so called.

Verb

shunpike (third-person singular simple present shunpikes, present participle shunpiking, simple past and past participle shunpiked)

1. To travel by side roads so as to avoid the toll roads or turnpikes.