freeway

[ free-wey ]

/ ˈfriˌweɪ /

an express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf.

a toll-free highway.

Origin of freeway

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30; free + way¹

He took a secluded road, telling me that avoiding the freeway would save me the tolls.

‘Brave Miss World’: Linor Abargil on Her Journey From Rape Victim to Beauty Queen to Activist |Linor Abargil |May 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The word evaporados appears on a wall adjacent to a freeway in a collection of photographs by Eduardo Villanes.

In ‘Urbes Mutantes,’ Scenes From Latin America’s Transformations |Justin Jones |May 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.

Amy Heckerling’s Three Favorite Scenes in ‘Clueless’ on Its 18th Birthday |Erin Cunningham |July 19, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
In 1998, a man named Daniel Jones shot himself in the head on live television on a Los Angeles freeway interchange.

‘Horribly Wrong’—Fox’s Live Suicide and the Thrill of the Police Chase |Eric Nusbaum |September 30, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

He pulled the stolen sedan off the freeway in Tonopah, about 50 miles west of Phoenix.

‘Horribly Wrong’—Fox’s Live Suicide and the Thrill of the Police Chase |Eric Nusbaum |September 30, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
She walked back across the freeway to the shantytown and ran into Hilda coming the other way.

Makers |Cory Doctorow
To go down Stemmons Expressway or Freeway towards the trade mart, you would have to turn how?

Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Because there are times when you pick up your speed, for instance on a freeway.

Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
We got the freeway in our sights and steadied and slowed and kept slowing.

The Night of the Long Knives |Fritz Reuter Leiber
My revolver and her dart gun were both tucked in the cave back at the edge of the freeway.

The Night of the Long Knives |Fritz Reuter Leiber

freeway

/ (ˈfriːˌweɪ) /

another name for expressway

a major road that can be used without paying a toll