Wiktionary
alt. 1 A female meter attendant: a female public servant tasked with enforcing the use of parking meters. 2 (context derogatory English) A meter attendant of either gender. n. 1 A female meter attendant: a female public servant tasked with enforcing the use of parking meters. 2 (context derogatory English) A meter attendant of either gender.
WordNet
n. policewoman who is assigned to write parking tickets
Usage examples of "meter maid".
If a cop or a meter maid comes along, tell them that you're waiting for your husband to finish a transaction with the coin shop around the corner.
From inside the house, though, I hear the beat of some jazzy music, accompaniment to the dance of the modern meter maid.
I rang up a thousand in hot tape decks once when DePugh was busy out front hassling a meter maid.
He was pacing back and forth in front of his car, sipping from a brown bottle of Primo beer and ignoring the oriental woman wearing a meter maid's uniform who was trying to get his attention as he scanned the baggage lobby.
Two days later I was walking on the old shopping street of our town when I saw a meter maid giving a ticket to a blue Mercedes.
I didn't wait for the meter maid to change back from my dead cousin in drag, I took off down the block, nearly knocking down an old lady who shouted after me.
I had been there once before, when a cold-hearted meter maid had failed to appreciate that a certain parking meter was simply swallowing my coins without regurgitating enough precious minutes to have a prescription filled.
Killers and kidnappers and bank-thieves who had eluded capture long enough to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List suddenly found themselves back in the slam, dropped by a 7-Eleven clerk who read True Detective or a meter maid who watched all the reality-crime shows on TV.
One, the meter maid had been making her rounds and neither had a nickel for the meter.