curb\ service

curb\ service
noun
Waiting on customers while they sit in their cars.

Families with small children often look for hamburger stands that offer curb service.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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  • curb service — {n.} Waiting on customers while they sit in their cars. * /Families with small children often look for hamburger stands that offer curb service./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • curb service — {n.} Waiting on customers while they sit in their cars. * /Families with small children often look for hamburger stands that offer curb service./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • curb service — curb′ serv ice n. service given to customers in parked cars, as at a drive in restaurant • Etymology: 1930–35, amer …   From formal English to slang

  • curb service — service given to customers in parked cars, as at a drive in restaurant. [1930 35, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

  • curb service — noun service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles • Hypernyms: ↑service …   Useful english dictionary

  • curb service — noun Date: 1925 service extended (as by a restaurant) to persons sitting in parked automobiles …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • curb service — Selling merchandise, lunches, cigarettes, cigars, etc. to persons on the street in vehicles. The use of the public streets by a person, firm or corporation engaged in business in any store, temporary or permanent stand or box, building, structure …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • service — See: AT ONE S SERVICE, CURB SERVICE, LIP SERVICE, OF SERVICE, ROOM SERVICE …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • service — See: AT ONE S SERVICE, CURB SERVICE, LIP SERVICE, OF SERVICE, ROOM SERVICE …   Dictionary of American idioms

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