passion pit

noun

, Older Slang.

1. a drive-in movie theater.

Word History and Origins

Origin of passion pit¹

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40; so called from its use by adolescents as a place for unobserved sexual intimacy

Example Sentences

Other acts on the bill for the one-day fest, set to take place May 18 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl, include Phoenix, Death Cab for Cutie, the War on Drugs, Miike Snow, Passion Pit and Alvvays.

From Los Angeles Times

At least half of the composers interviewed also are, or once were, performing musicians — Vincent is in darkDARK, Dancy used to be in Modern Time Machines, Lachi continues to release dance music tracks, and Hultquist was in the indie pop band Passion Pit.

From Los Angeles Times

Hulu Though each of The Dropout’s big plot points is based in reality, because the show weaves them all together into a singular narrative, it can read as the continued mythologization of Holmes — here set to a soundtrack of early-aughts hits like Passion Pit’s “Sleepyhead” and Feist’s “1234.”

From The Verge

A 1980 news article described an area of his office in Winnipeg — the city in Manitoba where he built his company — as a “passion pit” with a mirrored ceiling and a couch that transformed into a bed at the “push of a button.”

From New York Times

“Yeah. Well in about two hours that car is going to turn into a passion pit. I didn’t get a chance to tell you that last night we made out for at least five minutes in her driveway.”

From Literature