drive-in

drive-in {adj.}/ {n.}

A kind of movie theater, fast food restaurant, or church, where the customers, spectators, or worshippers do not leave their automobiles but are served the food inside their cars, can watch a motion picture from inside their cars, or can participate in a religious service in their cars.

Let's not waste time on the road; let's just eat at the next drive-in restaurant.

There is a drive-in theater not far from where we live.

Max and Hilde go to a drive-in church every Sunday.

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