Parking meter

/pˈɑːkɪŋ mˈiːtə/

/pˈɑːɹkɪŋ mˈiːɾɚ/

Parking meter

a device found on a street or in a parking lot that requires payment to allow a vehicle to be parked for a certain amount of time

Examples

1. I love you, grass, and parking meter.

2. It's sort of like the parking meters in Brookline.

3. Here's a parking meter of the sort that some cities have put in.

4. It ran through parking meters and a wall at a high speed, as much as three times above the speed limit before coming to a stop.