crazy paving

noun

Paving with pieces of irregular size and shape that fit together and (approximately) cover the surface.

“crazy-paving pattern”

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Meanings

nouncrazy paving (usually uncountable, plural crazy pavings)

plural crazy pavings

  1. uncountableusuallyPaving with pieces of irregular size and shape that fit together and (approximately) cover the surface.

    crazy-paving pattern

    3 more examples

    On the legs the changes are more marked and appear as a crazy-paving pattern.

    2012, Karl F. Schaller, Colour Atlas of Tropical Dermatology and Venerology, page 13-64

    The convoy was proceeding down the dry, cracked crazy-paving riverbed of the Gomatum.

    2012 -, Jeff Dawson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN

    Mine in particular was this: I had to dig up a crazy-paving path out of the frozen earth and lay it again one yard further on.

    2014, Eric Scott, I Could Have Been a Contender: Memoirs of a Black Sheep, →ISBN
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