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driveway moment

driveway moment noun: a brief compulsion to finish listening to something on the radio before leaving one's car.

Noun

driveway moment (plural driveway moments)

  1. A brief compulsion to finish listening to something on the radio before leaving one's car.
    • I had another driveway moment today, this time listening to David Sedaris.
    • For Paul Deering in Rochester, New York, the "Rhapsody In Blue" segment was a, quote, "driveway moment," although he writes that the transfixing occurred in his kitchen.[2000 March 5, Analysis: Letters from listeners (radio), via National Public Radio

Forms of driveway moment

pluraldriveway moments

Origin of driveway moment

Marketing coinage of NPR (National Public Radio), who used the phrase to encourage listeners to send in stories about what they had been listening to.

Questions about driveway moment

What does driveway moment mean?
Driveway moment means a brief compulsion to finish listening to something on the radio before leaving one's car.
What part of speech is driveway moment?
Driveway moment is a noun.
What is the plural of driveway moment?
The plural of driveway moment is driveway moments.

Words near driveway moment in the dictionary

  1. drivetrain
  2. drivetrains
  3. driveway
  4. driveway access
  5. driveway accesses
  6. driveway moment
  7. driveway moments
  8. driveways
  9. drivewheel
  10. drivewheels
  11. drivin'

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