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drivethrough

drivethrough is the rare 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 drivethrough

pluraldrivethroughs

Questions about drivethrough

What is drivethrough the rare form of?
Drivethrough is the rare form of drive-through.

Words near drivethrough in the dictionary

  1. driveshafts
  2. driveshed
  3. drivesheds
  4. drivest
  5. driveth
  6. drivethrough
  7. drivethroughs
  8. drivethru
  9. drivetime
  10. drivetimes
  11. drivetrain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drivethrough (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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