Other forms: drive-throughs
A drive-through is a service where you order and collect without leaving the car. Use the drive-through.
It began with banks in the 1930s and reached food afterwards. A drive-through queue is often slower than going inside and feels faster, which is the whole trick.
1noundrive-throughA service where you order and collect without leaving the car.
“The drive-through queue went round the building twice.”
drive-through is a service.
From drive plus through; the first were banks in the United States before the model reached restaurants.
Deverbal from drive#Verb through.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Restaurant & Cafe