hellstrip

English
A hellstrip with grass and a stump.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From hell +‎ strip. Coined by American horticulturalist and author Lauren Springer Ogden in the 1990s.[1][2]

Noun

hellstrip (plural hellstrips)

  1. A strip of land between a sidewalk and a street.
    Synonyms: road verge, parking strip, tree lawn

See also

References
  1. Lauren Springer Ogden (1994) The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-resilient Beauty‎, page 6: “I have a long rectangular corner lot encircled by concrete sidewalks, beyond which stretch 250 feet of narrow “hell strips,” areas owned by the municipality but to be maintained by the homeowner.”
  2. Michael Tortorello (2010) “Planting the Strip Between Sidewalk and Street”, in New York Times‎: “The best, in my opinion, is “hell strip,” which was coined by the horticulturist and author Lauren Springer Ogden, who lives in Fort Collins, Colo., and Austin, Tex.”
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