Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An establishment, especially an outdoor movie theater, designed to permit customers to remain in their motor vehicles while being accommodated.
- adjective Of or being such an establishment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any installation designed to accommodate patrons while staying in their automobiles; especially an outdoor movie theater in which patrons park in their vehicles to watch the movie.
- adjective arranged to allow business to be transacted while patrons remain in their vehicles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective US, of an establishment Providing
service to patrons who remain in theirautomobiles . - noun US, Australia An
outdoor cinema wheremovies areprojected onto a largescreen and patrons watch from inside their vehicles, listening either by aspeaker or a designated radio frequency. - noun US A
drive-through restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles and order food and beverages via a speaker phone; their meal is delivered to their vehicle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrive by motorcar
- verb cause a run or runner to be scored
- verb cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- noun any installation designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles
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Examples
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Anthony Curio bragged the whole way how he’d taken Suzy Micheli to the drive-in only he always called the drive-in the submarine races the night before, popping her cherry on the vinyl seat Jimmy and I were sitting on.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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Anthony Curio bragged the whole way how he’d taken Suzy Micheli to the drive-in only he always called the drive-in the submarine races the night before, popping her cherry on the vinyl seat Jimmy and I were sitting on.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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Ho realizzato i 6 drive-in theatre come per il grande schermo.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Claudia Cardinale, l'attrice che ho sempre seguito in tutti i suoi drive-in theatre criminal l'enorme ammirazione per la sua bellezza ...
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Here have been the drive-in theatre we consider will attract the greatest audiences over the subsequent 12 months.
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Con i milioni di drive-in theatre girati nel mondo, un genio come Tarantino sceglie un piece for one person movie per farne un remake ... e sceglie il mio!
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The sulphur odor is more pungent at night in this natural phenomenon know as the world's only drive-in volcano.
Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island Dwight Brown 2011
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Probably expelled as well late to feature really strongly upon the 2010 box bureau charts, it will still be the single of the pass drive-in theatre of subsequent winter.
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The sulphur odor is more pungent at night in this natural phenomenon know as the world's only drive-in volcano.
Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island Dwight Brown 2011
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Adapted as well as destined by Bruce Robinson, who gave us Withnail as well as I, this take of unruly as well as perilously parched reporters will be near-unavoidable this spring, if usually given we reporters adore drive-in theatre about journalists.
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