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Definition of "drive-in" []

  • An establishment, especially an outdoor movie theater, designed to permit customers to remain in their motor vehicles while being accommodated. (noun)
  • Of or being such an establishment: a drive-in restaurant; a drive-in teller. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "drive-in" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "The sulphur odor is more pungent at night in this natural phenomenon know as the world's only drive-in volcano."
  • "Claudia Cardinale, l'attrice che ho sempre seguito in tutti i suoi drive-in theatre criminal l'enorme ammirazione per la sua bellezza ..."