Other Uses
An early use of the term may have been from a description of thieves who took advantage of the newly-constructed Beltway to rob houses from their back yards, which were now exposed to the highway. Neighbors would not have seen them from the front yards, and by the time the police arrived, the thieves would have used the Beltway to escape to another state, when communications between Virginia and Maryland police departments was fairly rudimentary.
Beltway Bandits is the name of a women's competitive travelling ice-hockey program in the DC area. The team is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Women's Hockey League.
It is the name of an instrumental piece of music by Frank Zappa on his "Jazz from Hell" album.
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