"drive-through" meaning in English

See drive-through in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Deverbal from drive through. Etymology templates: {{m|en|drive#Verb}} drive, {{m|en|through}} through Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} drive-through (not comparable)
  1. Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of automobiles while they are in their still-running vehicle, especially when the vehicle does not park in a parking space and the goods received are not consumed until the vehicle vacates the lane. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Restaurants
    Sense id: en-drive-through-en-adj-OCGam120 Disambiguation of Restaurants: 50 10 29 12 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English deverbals, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English links with manual fragments, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English deverbals: 60 13 16 11 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 11 19 3 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 60 13 23 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 62 10 18 10 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 46 6 45 3 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 60 10 25 4
  2. Of a feature of such an establishment (especially a window), adapted to provide such service. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-drive-through-en-adj-pnXemGba
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: drive-thru [US] Derived forms: ski-through

Noun

Forms: drive-throughs [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from drive through. Etymology templates: {{m|en|drive#Verb}} drive, {{m|en|through}} through Head templates: {{en-noun}} drive-through (plural drive-throughs)
  1. An establishment, especially a restaurant, providing drive-through service. Translations (establishment providing drive-through service): 得來速 (Chinese Mandarin), 得来速 (déláisù) (Chinese Mandarin), autokaistaravintola (english: restaurant) (Finnish), drive [masculine] (French), drive-in [masculine] (French), Drive-in-Restaurant [neuter] (German), Drive-Thru [neuter] (German), ドライブスルー (doraibu-surū) (Japanese), 드라이브스루 (deuraibeuseuru) (Korean), drive-thru [masculine] (Portuguese), драйв-сру́ (drajv-srú) [colloquial, masculine, neologism] (Russian), драйв-и́н (drajv-ín) [masculine] (Russian), автокафе́ (avtokafé) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-drive-through-en-noun-UTxtULg6 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 46 6 45 3 Disambiguation of 'establishment providing drive-through service': 72 28
  2. The window of such an establishment adapted for such purpose.
    Sense id: en-drive-through-en-noun-9Y8umXWN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: drive-thru [US] Derived forms: ski-through Related terms: curb service, drive-by

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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