checkpointnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtʃek.pɔɪnt/us/ˈtʃek.pɔɪnt/a place where people are stopped and asked questions and vehicles are examined, especially at a border between two countries:
Checkpoint Charlie was the most famous border crossing between East and West Berlin.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Territorial boundaries
- border
- bound
- boundary
- frontier
- no-man's-land
- state line
- the Iron Curtain
- the Mason-Dixon Line