单词 | meter maid |
释义 | meter maid in British Englishnoun informal a female traffic warden meter maid in American English US a woman employed by a police traffic department to issue tickets for illegal or overtime parking, jaywalking, etc. meter maid in American Englishnoun a female member of a police or traffic department responsible for issuing tickets for parking violations Word origin [1955–60, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1955–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: life-support, opioid, rite of passage, rollout, softwareExamples of 'meter maid' in a sentence |
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