Definition of "tarmac" []

• A tarmacadam road or surface, especially an airport runway. (noun)
• To cause (an aircraft) to sit on a taxiway. (verb-transitive)
• To sit on a taxiway. Used of an aircraft. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I - one of the most fascinating aspects of your book is - because it interests me so personally, is concrete and the development of roads in the country, and how we got the word tarmac and concrete and things like that."
• "It was a bad month for travelers caught in tarmac delays."
• "It was to be a while before the luggage was to be loaded so the pilot took me up to the board the plane where I could watch the tarmac from a window."