: designed to allow patrons or customers to be served while remaining in their automobiles
a drive-up window
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The four-bedroom, 3,200-plus-square-foot residences were thoughtfully designed to function more like separate single-family homes, with completely different drive-up appeal.
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Dallas Builders Association, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
Five Guys plans to open in the 3,035-square-foot building with a new interior prototype and a drive-up window next spring.
—Kathy Jumper, al, 13 Aug. 2023
The building itself was a drive-up motel, constructed in the eighties, without modern safety features such as interior hallways and elevators secured by key cards.
—Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
Among them: Care of Southeastern Michigan's Recovery United Community Center in Fraser offers drive-up naloxone training.
—Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
To park there, drive-up customers pay up to $35 per day.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
The ham and food distribution is a drive-up-and-go style.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
Tempe police spoke on Monday about a March 17 drive-up shooting in Tempe that killed a 5-year-old child and left two other children wounded.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
Delivery and drive-up are a big part of the business That's a huge part of our business now.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
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Dallas Builders Association, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
Five Guys plans to open in the 3,035-square-foot building with a new interior prototype and a drive-up window next spring.
—Kathy Jumper, al, 13 Aug. 2023
The building itself was a drive-up motel, constructed in the eighties, without modern safety features such as interior hallways and elevators secured by key cards.
—Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
Among them: Care of Southeastern Michigan's Recovery United Community Center in Fraser offers drive-up naloxone training.
—Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
To park there, drive-up customers pay up to $35 per day.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
The ham and food distribution is a drive-up-and-go style.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
Tempe police spoke on Monday about a March 17 drive-up shooting in Tempe that killed a 5-year-old child and left two other children wounded.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
Delivery and drive-up are a big part of the business That's a huge part of our business now.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
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First Known Use
1949, in the meaning defined above
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drive-up
adjectiveˈdrīv-ˌəp
: designed to allow customers to be served while remaining in their automobiles
a bank's drive-up window
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