devil's strip
Regional
- Meaning
- The grass strip between sidewalk and street (Akron, OH).
- Type
- Regionalism
- Used in
- Akron, Ohio
What does “devil's strip” mean
A few miles south of Cleveland's "tree lawn" the same patch of grass is called the devil's strip — a regional shibboleth famous in court testimony cases.
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