Definition of "cloverleaf"

cloverleaf

/ˈkləʊvəliːf/

adjective
not comparable
1. In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.
noun
plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves
1. (with plural cloverleaves) The leaf of a clover plant.
2. (US) (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) A cloverleaf interchange.
  Quotations
  By the time we got into Tulsa TownWe had eighty-five trucks in allBut there's a roadblock up on the cloverleafAnd them bears was wall-to-wall.
  1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall
verb
third-person singular simple present cloverleafs, present participle cloverleafing, simple past and past participle cloverleafed
1. (intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
  Quotations
  Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.
  2003, David Maraniss, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967