drive-in
See also: drive in
English
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Adjective
drive-in (not comparable)
- (US, of an establishment) Providing service to patrons who remain in their automobiles.
Synonyms
Noun
- (US, Australia) An outdoor cinema where movies are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicles, listening either by a speaker or a designated radio frequency.
- 1975, David Manning White, Popular Culture, page 154,
- Owners and sponsors of the drive-ins feel that in three-quarters of their patrons they have tapped a practically prehistoric strain of human—the hitherto non-movie-goer.
- 2000, Mary Alampi, Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Group Industry Handbook, page 26,
- This fact may seem surprising since the major movie studios, reluctant to risk cheapening their images by releasing first-run films to drive-ins, made only older movies affordable to drive-in operators.
- 2000, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2000 Year Book Australia, page 346,
- At the end of June 1997, there were 325 cinema sites and 28 drive-in sites in Australia.
- 1975, David Manning White, Popular Culture, page 154,
- (US) A drive-through restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles and order food and beverages via a speaker phone; the meal is delivered to one's vehicle by a carhop.
- The teenagers went down to the drive-in to order some hamburgers and fries.
- 1965 May 7, Don Moser, The nightmare of life with Billy, LIFE, page 101,
- At the retarded children′s school, the youngsters occasionally got hamburgers for lunch from a drive-in chain. […] he cruised the city looking for drive-ins where he wasn′t known.
- 1986, Business Week, Issues 2967-2978, page 136,
- Even before franchising genius Ray A. Kroc approached Mac and Dick McDonald to become the licensing agent for their small San Bernardino (Calif.) restaurant, scores of drive-in operators had begun copying McDonald′s speedy burger-fries-and-shake menus. Love contends that Kroc′s success came largely from his commitment to automating the preparation of drive-in meals.
- 2006, Reid Duffy, Reid Duffy's Guide to Indiana's Favorite Restaurants: With a Recipe Sampler, page 135,
- For during the fabled Indiana blizzard of ′78, Tom found himself trapped inside the kitchen of the drive-in for three days before his family, and—more to the point—his customers, could reach him.
Synonyms
- (outdoor cinema): drive-in cinema, drive-in movie, drive-in theater/drive-in theatre
- (drive-through restaurant): drive-in restaurant, drive-through
Translations
outdoor cinema
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drive-in restaurant — see drive-through
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Etymology
Noun
drive-in m (plural s)
- drive-in (an outdoor cinema)
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