- a place of business or public facility designed to accommodate patrons who sit in their automobiles, as a movie theater with an outdoor screen facing the parking area or a restaurant where servers bring food out to be eaten in the parked automobiles.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of such an establishment: Drive-in business far exceeded walk-in business.
- denoting a public facility or service designed to be used by patrons seated in their cars
- a cinema designed to be used in such a manner
