Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of parking a vehicle with its side parallel to the curb or the side of the road. 2 A driving technique that facilitates such parking. 3 A space at the side of the road where such parking is allowed.
Wikipedia
thumb|250px|right|Parallel-parked cars in Washington, D.C. thumb|250px|right|A motorist gets assistance parallel-parking thumb|250px|right|Parallel parking animation Parallel parking is a method of parking a vehicle parallel to the road (hence the term 'Parallel Parking'), in line with other parked vehicles. Parallel parking usually requires initially driving slightly past the parking space, parallel to the parked vehicle in front of that space, keeping a safe distance, then followed by reversing into that space. Subsequent position adjustment may require the use of forward and reverse gears.
Usage examples of "parallel parking".
He turned me around to face the car, which had just finished parallel parking in the road, pointing toward the right.
I spotted a space halfway between my apartment and the restaurant and then did a half-assed job of parallel parking.
She was not good at parallel parking and breathed a heavy sigh of relief when she managed to angle her car into the slot.
It wasn't the space Erin would have chosen for her first try at parallel parking someone's cherished Mercedes, and the fact that Philips was walking toward them, watching interestedly, didn't help.
But just as (in parallel parking) it's easier to get out of a parking place than into one, it's easier to destroy a planetary environment than to move it into a narrowly prescribed range of temperatures, pressures, compositions, and so on.
Whoever was driving the car last night has a thing or two to learn about parallel parking.
He was nearly as good at conversation as he was at parallel parking.