parking meter
Noun
Meaning
a coin-operated timer located next to a parking space; depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time
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I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
After O’Brien reached the scene, he contributed to the protest by lifting a parking meter alongside a few other men and used it to barricade the police inside the bar.
You know what, you were ill-prepared to deal with a parking meter.
Maybe next time they will hit a parking meter instead.
My favorite was a single, gorgeous, barely worn, red leather stiletto sitting at the foot of an expired parking meter on Polk Street.
One Judge even quashed the by-laws under which the parking meter project was being implemented.