drive-in
See also: drive in
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]drive-in (not comparable)
- (US) Of an establishment, providing service to patrons who remain in their automobiles and partake while parked.
- Coordinate term: drive-through (adjective)
- drive-in church
- drive-in funeral parlor
- (Philippines) A motel; a motor inn.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]providing service to patrons in their automobiles
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Noun
[edit]- (US, Canada, 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.
- Synonyms: drive-in cinema, drive-in movie, drive-in theatre
- 1956 December 12, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 295:
- While searching for night lodgings, I passed a drive-in. In a selenian glow, truly mystical in its contrast with the moonless and massive night, on a gigantic screen slanting away among dark drowsy fields, a thin phantom raised a gun, both he and his arm reduced to tremulous dishwater by the oblique angle of that receding world,—and the next moment a row of trees shut off the gesticulation.
- 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.
- (US, Canada) A restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles to consume their meals; the meal may be ordered and delivered to one's vehicle by a carhop waiter; or may require patrons to use a service counter. The cars in the parking lot serve as the patrons' dining room, there being a lack of dining rooms and tables.
- Synonym: drive-in restaurant
- Hyponyms: drive-through, drive-through restaurant
- The teenagers went down to the drive-in to order some hamburgers and fries.
- (US, Canada) A drive-through restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles and order food and beverages via a speaker phone; the meal is delivered by a service window accessible by car.
- 1986, Business Week, numbers 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.
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]outdoor cinema
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drive-in restaurant
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drive-through restaurant — see drive-through
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]drive-in
- drive-in (any establishment providing drive-in service)
- Mennäänkö drive-iniin syömään?
- Would you want to eat in a drive in?
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of drive-in (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | drive-in | drive-init | |
| genitive | drive-inin | drive-inien | |
| partitive | drive-iniä | drive-inejä | |
| illative | drive-iniin | drive-ineihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | drive-in | drive-init | |
| accusative | nom. | drive-in | drive-init |
| gen. | drive-inin | ||
| genitive | drive-inin | drive-inien | |
| partitive | drive-iniä | drive-inejä | |
| inessive | drive-inissä | drive-ineissä | |
| elative | drive-inistä | drive-ineistä | |
| illative | drive-iniin | drive-ineihin | |
| adessive | drive-inillä | drive-ineillä | |
| ablative | drive-iniltä | drive-ineiltä | |
| allative | drive-inille | drive-ineille | |
| essive | drive-ininä | drive-ineinä | |
| translative | drive-iniksi | drive-ineiksi | |
| abessive | drive-inittä | drive-ineittä | |
| instructive | — | drive-inein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “drive-in”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 14 May 2026
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English drive-in.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]Noun
[edit]drive-in m (invariable)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English drive-in.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]drive-in m (plural drive-ins)
- drive-in (an outdoor cinema)
Further reading
[edit]- “drive-in”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “drive-in”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English drive-in.
Adjective
[edit]drive-in m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | drive-in | drive-in | drive-in | drive-in | ||
| definite | — | — | — | — | |||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | drive-in | drive-in | drive-in | drive-in | ||
| definite | — | — | — | — | |||
Noun
[edit]drive-in n (plural drive-in)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | drive-in | drive-inul | drive-in | drive-inle |
| genitive-dative | drive-in | drive-inului | drive-in | drive-inlor |
| vocative | drive-inule | drive-inlor | ||
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