ˈdrive-in noun [countable]1. a restaurant where you are served and eat in your car
2. a place where you can watch films outdoors while sitting in your car
[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
drive in adj./
n. A kind of movie theater, fast food restaurant, or church, where the customers, spectators, or worshippers do not leave their automobiles but are served the food inside their cars, can watch a motion picture from inside their cars, or can participate in a religious service in their cars.
Let's not waste time on the road; let's just eat at the next drive-in restaurant.
There is a drive-in theater not far from where we live.
Max and Hilde go to a drive-in church every Sunday. [TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲