parking lot
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Pronunciation
editNoun
editparking lot (plural parking lots)
- (Canada, US, Philippines, Malaysia) An open area, generally paved, where automobiles may be left when not in use.
- Should we park in that parking lot, or in the garage up the street?
- 1970, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Big Yellow Taxi”:
- They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
- (US, figuratively, humorous) A road blocked by stop-start traffic.
- The 101 was a parking lot again today.
- (US, figuratively) A place in a state of complete destruction, especially one achieved through military means.
- 1992 April 15, Dore Gold, “The U.S.-Israel Relationship: Mounting Misperceptions in Washington”, in Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs[1]:
- America believed it had smashed Israel’s greatest enemy and turned Iraq into a parking lot, so now Israel could take risks it had never been able to take before.
- 2005, John Grevstad, Red State, Blue State: Defending the Liberal Jesus and Blue State Morality from Red State Religion and Hypocrisy, →ISBN, page 182:
- I was one of the people understanding the need to turn Afghanistan into a parking lot on the way to finding Bin Laden and bringing him to justice.
- 2018, Norman G. Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, →ISBN, page 56:
- Eager for “round two,” a member of Israel’s regional council adjoining Gaza exhorted the military that next time they should “flatten Gaza into a parking lot, destroy them.”
Translations
editopen area, generally paved, where automobiles may be left when not in use
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See also
edit- car park (Britain, Ireland, Australia, Singaporean, Malaysian)
- garage
- parkade
- parking garage
- parking structure
- parking space