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drive thru

drive thru is the alternative form of drive-through.

Meaning of drive-through

Adjective

drive-through (not comparable)

  1. Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of automobiles while they are in their still-running vehicle, especially when the vehicle does not park in a parking space and the goods received are not consumed until the vehicle vacates the lane.
    • I switched banks so that I could use a drive-through branch near my home.
  2. Of a feature of such an establishment (especially a window), adapted to provide such service.
    • The restaurant’s drive-through window had a turntable of bulletproof glass designed to allow transactions while preventing robberies.

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Forms of drive thru

pluraldrive thrus

Questions about drive thru

What is drive thru the alternative form of?
Drive thru is the alternative form of drive-through.

Words near drive thru in the dictionary

  1. drive someone to the wall
  2. drive someone up the wall
  3. drive stick
  4. drive the porcelain bus
  5. drive through
  6. drive thru
  7. drive thrus
  8. drive time
  9. drive times
  10. drive to distraction
  11. drive to drink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drive thru (page history and authors); drive-through (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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