pork-chop island
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "A small “pork-chop” island separates a lane of traffic turning right from Kelly to Sedgley, and that island should grow in the new intersection."
- "I just don’t see many people migrating north to Fond du Lac if it becomes a maze of frontage roads (the walking trail could soon become one), pork-chop islands and back roads."
- "Caribou Coffee resisted a similar median on South Estes Drive, and the town instead chose to require a “pork-chop” island in the driveway of Walgreens, making lefthand turns extremely difficult."
- "The pork-chop island causes the right-turning vehicles to be in their own roadway, and so are not governed by the traffic signal."
- "City Manager Randy Knight said Winter Park was debating whether signs restricting left turns between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. would be enough or if a so-called “pork-chop” island — a triangular traffic device that helps drivers make right turns — would be enough."
- "They [election signs] must be three metres from curbs, can’t be placed on centre medians, and can’t be placed on pork-chop islands."