Devil Strip - Do you know what I mean?

[Courk]

Apparently this has a very limited regional use to just Akron, but I find that hard to believe, though I am biased. Does anyone else know what a devil strip is?

If I tell you it's the bit of land between the sidewalk and the street, what do you call it instead?

[MNOWAX]

I usually cal it a parkway, personally, but it has been a long time since I had one ( i now live out in a rural area,but i grew up in Rochester, NY.) I have never heard it called a devil's strip.
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[Neo]

I don't know why you would regularly have land between the sidewalk and the street.

I'm from Kansas. Never heard that terminology. Never gave that strip of land any particular name either.
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[Suspence]

Here in Massachusetts, we call it the tree belt.

As in, "We didn't want our old TV anymore, so we put it out on the tree belt with a sign that said 'FREE'."

I've never heard of devil strip, or any other name for this area.
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[Zag]

I've lived my whole life in Mass and southern NH, and I've never heard it called anything. Of course, I was always in the more rural areas, and have never lived on a street with a sidewalk.

[Chuck]

We don't seem to have those in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona. The pavement goes all the way to the curb. I remember them in Pittsburgh. If I ever knew what they were called, I don't remember now.

[dethwing]

I've never heard of any of these expressions. It never occurred to me that that thing would need a name.

[extropalopakettle]

[extropalopakettle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_verge

[The Ragin' South Asian]

I've heard referred to as an easement when I've heard it referred to at all. The Devil's Strip sounds bad ass though.

[jesternl]

We call it the ditch...

[Pablo]

In Fargo, they referred to it as the "boulevard".
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[Courk]

What about growing up, Pablo? Do they call it a devil strip south of here?

[jesternl]

My Clevelandian colleague calls it a treelawn.

[Jack_Ian]

[buzz*]

Never heard this term before here in the great lakes region.

[bonanova]

Agree with the wiki article. Growing up in Minneapolis it was called a boulevard.
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