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"slip road" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a short road that provides vehicles with a way to enter or exit a highway or major road. Slip roads are also sometimes called "exit ramps" or "on/off ramps." Example: After merging onto the highway, I quickly took the first exit on the slip road to get to the gas station.
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slip road
noun
A segment of roadway that joins a motorway to ordinary roads (in either direction)
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Last year she reversed up slip road of the M6 and car wasn't even scratched!
The slip road leads to the small motorway town of Brookfields, near Heathrow.
So I set off on a slip road to the M6.
Seventeen people have been hurt after a coach veered off a motorway slip road and overturned in heavy fog.
Pearson obeys his car's invitation to turn down a slip road, which "I had somehow known was waiting for me".
I took all four corners off it coming off the slip road on to the Mancunian Way.
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It is coming down the main roads and the slip roads and even beautiful country lanes at huge astonishing speed.
It has sometimes felt like sailing down an empty motorway unimpeded, while at every junction the slip roads are clogged with the traffic of theatremakers chasing tangential concepts.
This led to a meaning of "passageway enabling passengers to board a ship," later applied to airplanes and the slip roads leading on or off highways.
He explained that a procession of driverless lorries could block slip roads, meaning they would have to use the offside lane.
In 1973, Ballard published Crash, his controversial novel of sex-death eroticism in a claustrophobic mindscape of concrete and tarmac: the airport slip roads, multi-storey car parks, low-level warehouses and convenience hotels that overspread Mabey's liminal lands.
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