drive-through

[ drahyv-throo ]

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noun

the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out:
a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills;
The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.

designed to accommodate or arranged for a drive-through:
This gas station has a drive-through car wash.

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First recorded in 1970–75; noun and adjectival use of verb phrase drive through

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This meant that Palestinian taxi drivers had to drive through the Israeli settlement of Bet El.

He starts talking about his big move to New York when he was 21, that drive through the Holland Tunnel to the big city.

Their first move will likely be a quick drive through Zaporizhia and Kherson toward… Crimea.

“I drive through the streets and see people without hope,” he says in the elegiac narration that ends the film.

The pope had insisted he drive through the crowd to “hear the voices of concern,” according to journalists traveling with him.

Where the stone wall had to be left open for bar-ways, to drive through, he went to work and nailed up the bars.

Buy up the men, maybe, and start fights, and be sort of forced to take charge so's to get my drive through.

He only knew that the drive through the shady stretches of woodland grew suddenly to seem like little journeys into paradise.

That afternoon we took a carriage drive through the woods to one of the neighboring towns.

After all, it is a great city; it has three streets, and one can drive through one of them.

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