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drive-in

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Drive-In is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Rod Amateau and written by Bob Peete. The film stars Lisa Lemole , Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Glenn Morshower , Billy Milliken, Lee Newsom and Regan Kee. The film was released on May 26, 1976, by Columbia Pictures ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to of restaurants, banks, etc., 1929; from drive (v.) + in . Of movie theaters by 1933 (the year the first one opened, in Camden, N.J.).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context US of an establishment English) Providing service to patrons who remain in their automobiles. n. 1 (context US Australia English) An outdoor cinema where movies are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicles, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
drive-in \drive-in\ a. arranged to allow business to be transacted while patrons remain in their vehicles; as, a drive-in window at a bank. Syn: drive-through. [WordNet 1.5]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A white waitress at a drive-in told the couple to park across the street, because they were black. ▪ And new drive-in establishments like banks and fast-food bars are to be banned. ▪ But drive-ins are on the way out. ▪ Just opposite, ...

Usage examples of drive-in.

The shopping center and highway traffic almost dulled the appassionata at the next-door drive-in.

She had met her first husband while working as a carhop at the Brown Derby Drive-In in Los Feliz in the late 1940s, while still in her teens.

Drive-in Puerto Rico, who informed him that he, Mauricio Galpa, was now sole owner and proprietor of the restaurant.

Giant rectangular antennas, like drive-in movie screens, were erected to intercept microwave signals.

Nancy meanwhile had taken the Volks to get a bag of hamburgers from a nearby drive-in.

Wanda burgers and beer at one of the classier drive-ins, after which they moved on to what the newspapers called a swinging singles bar.

After a short stroll in the park and an early movierated R for raunchy, some godawful rendition of a worse bestseller, that bound itself somehow in Dan's mind with his real-life situation, so that he kept half-expecting the crab-machine to appear on screenhe bought Wanda burgers and beer at one of the classier drive-ins, after which they moved on to what the newspapers called a swinging singles bar.

Trying to keep a conversation going, Baer drove out to Main Street, turned south, and then west on Roosevelt Road, looking for a passable drive-in restaurant.

I was supposed to go to the drive-in Sunday night with Cooter Bogbean, but now I get to prance around a pasture, telling little old ladies where to sit and trying not to throw up when people start babbling about the Holy Spirit.

While the Cincinnati and Columbus areas were still reeling from the new competition, Frisch's moved into Indianapolis and Louisville where it avoided directly competing with existing White Castles, instead focusing on the growing suburban markets and building drive-ins near new shopping plazas and supermarkets.

Through my dad's old binoculars I could clearly see how Pickett's troops had advanced from the direction of the town, a mile or so to the north, sweeping across the Burger King parking lot, skirting the Tastee Delite Drive-In and regrouping just outside the Crap-o-Rama Wax Museum and Gift Shop.

I'm pretty sure almost positive, actually that a lot of Seth's 'strange powers' have a very short range, like the radio transmitters they used to have at the drive-ins, the ones that piped the movie sound directly into your car radio.

Tonight we had Andy Fulcher sit the big kids while Tab & I & Owen went to the Bridgton Drive-In.

Though it looked like the screen from an old drive-in theater, it was in fact a massive version of the solid-state radar array used by the Japanese E-767s, or for that matter the Aegis cruisers and destroyers in both contending navies.

A bowling alley or drive-in movie theater would have been most welcome.