tarmacadam

[tahr-muh-kad-uhm]

tar·mac·ad·am

[tahr-muh-kad-uhm]
noun
a paving material consisting of coarse crushed stone covered with a mixture of tar and bitumen.

Origin:
1880–85; tar1 + macadam
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Tarmacadam is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
WordNet
tarmacadam

noun
1. a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving 
2. a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar 
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