shunpike

Noun

 * 1) A side road or route.
 * 2) * 1988: Joseph Dow's History of Hampton (New Hampshire), ISBN 0914339222, (referring to a bridge built to avoid a turnpike toll)
 * In 1821 the selectmen were petitioned to lay out a new road in Hampton, beginning at Vittum's corner, so called, [junction of Towle Farm Road & Exeter Road] and running to the line of Hampton Falls at the shunpike bridge, so called.

Translations

 * German: mautfreie Strecke (toll-free section)
 * Italian: normale (normal [route])

Verb

 * 1) To travel by side roads so as to avoid the toll roads or turnpikes.

Translations

 * Italian: farsi la normale (to take the normal route)