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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
parking meter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I took his parking meter space in part-payment for my woman.
Wiktionary
parking meter

n. A device, located by a parking space, that collects payment in exchange for the right to park a vehicle for a specified time.

WordNet
parking meter

n. a coin-operated timer located next to a parking space; depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time

Wikipedia
Parking meter

A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time. Parking meters can be used by municipalities as a tool for enforcing their integrated on-street parking policy, usually related to their traffic and mobility management policies, but are also used for revenue.

Usage examples of "parking meter".

More money than that parking meter could shit at you in twenty years.

It was as she merged the car back into traffic that he saw the yellow motorbike leaning on a parking meter about 9 half block from Barnie’.

Then he reached into a cigar box he carried, pulled out a penny and leaped at the parking meter.

I eased forward, rolled up on the curb, and nudged the parking meter.

I only hit the car behind me twice, and I missed the parking meter totally.

She, too, knew that her parking meter on 10th Street was about to expire.

The Buick gleamed from a parking meter two spaces from Commercial Avenue.

I parked in a spot where the parking meter had been ripped from the concrete.