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beltway

[ belt-wey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Also called belt highway. a highway around the perimeter of an urban area.
the Beltway, the Washington, D.C., area within the highway that encircles it.

beltway

/ ˈbɛltˌweɪ /

the usual US name for a ring road
usually with capital
1. the people and institutions located in the area bounded by the Washington Beltway, taken to be politically and socially out of touch with the rest of America and much given to political intrigue
2. ( as modifier )
  Beltway Cassandras

Origin of beltway¹

First recorded in 1950–55; belt + way ¹

At its worst, The Stranger merely recycles the biases, conventional wisdom, and cynical bitterness of inside-the-beltway habitués.

It was just something they knew they had to say for a while to sound responsible in Beltway land.

After all, Beltway elites—and many voters—are under the impression that the Republican Party is still nostalgic for the Cold War.

Then presidential politicking transformed the Benghazi tragedy into an inside-the-Beltway circus.

But travel outside the Beltway, and the conversation about impeachment is far from abstract.

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