Definition of "thruway" [thruway]

• See expressway. (noun)

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• "The thruway is the most expensive roadway in the North east and imho, the worst in the country."
• "You can see the compound from a section of elevated thruway."
• "Sedaris doesn't drive, and so he arrived here through a real-life game of Frogger, scurrying over several lanes of traffic from his Marriott across the thruway."