drive-upadj.n.
/ˈdrʌɪvʌp/, U.S. /ˈdraɪvˌəp/ North American.
A. adj.
Designating a restaurant, shop, bank, etc., with a counter or window to which customers may drive in order to be served, rather than having to leave their vehicle and enter the premises. Also: designating the counter or window itself. Cf. drive-through adj.
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1949 Washington Post 2 July 1 b/6 Riggs Bank operates the ‘drive up’ bank in a temporary building at the Army Medical Center.
1949 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 Dec. 23/5 Use our exclusive drive-up teller service... Just turn left from..the rear of our building. Continue 75 feet to drive-up window.
1996 J. Romain Wagner Whacker iv. 38 They'd pull the whole place down, and start from scratch. Golden arches, parking lot and drive-up counter.
2018 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 25 July 1 He was spotted ordering a takeout meal at lunchtime at D's drive-up restaurant on North Main Street.
B. n.
A restaurant, shop, etc., having a counter or window to which customers may drive in order to be served, rather than having to leave their vehicle and enter the premises. Cf. drive-through n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > with a drive-up window
drive-in1931
drive-through1949
drive-up1956
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > other eating-houses
ordinary1590
chop-house1699
porterhouse?1730
steak house1762
beef-house1807
rotisserie1825
fish-shop1826
supper tavern1841
supper house1855
supper room1858
grill-room1883
teetotum1891
grill1896
bar and grill1903
corner-house1912
bistro1922
roadhouse1922
hot doggery1923
rosticceria1930
dinette1940
British Restaurant1941
drive-through1949
drive-up1956
sobaya1958
carvery1962
ouzeri1964
crêperie1967
steak restaurant1970
sushiya1970
steak bar1971
buka1972
kopitiam1979
bukateria1980
churrascaria1981
parrilla1981
Indian1982
theme pub1983
parrillada1984
restobar1992
1956 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune 7 Oct. 11/6 (advt.) For your convenience drive-ups and parking.
1993 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 17 Nov. A customer had come to the drive-up and ordered.
2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 Dec. d2/6 The drive-up's now-iconic plaster doughnut sign..makes an apt metaphor for all of L.A.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1949