boulevard stop

boulevard stop
 n.— «We almost became friends, me, the day laborers and the Surf Sacrifice. I always had to make a boulevard stop at their intersection. I’d roll up to the stop and they would cheer and wave and call good morning.» —“Is something rotten in America?” by Tom Murphine Orange County Register (California) Mar. 8, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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