Parking Lot

Definition: Parking Lot

Parking Lot

Noun

1. A lot where cars are parked.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Parking Lot

Crosswords: Parking Lot

Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot! (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Probably in a parking lot somewhere picking his nose (PCU; writing credit: Adam Leff; Zak Penn)

It's a parking lot! This is a restricted club, so don't tell 'em you're Jewish (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis)

See right where that parking lot is. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

I hated college. Deadlines, term papers, cram study sessions, stupid touch football games, dorms, ugh, communal showers, toilets with no doors, waking up in the middle of the night, drunk, in the parking lot, naked (Early Edition; writing credit: Joe Bolster)

I pace around the parking lot (Brick; performing artist: Ben Folds Five)

Pushin through the parking lot on 24's Cadilac (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers)

And every guy in the parking lot wants to rob me of my girl (Lady; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Halfway home in the parking lot (Once Bitten Twice Shy; performing artist: Great White)

And put up a parking lot ("Big Yellow Taxi"; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)

How to act insane: When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling, "Run for your lives, they're loose! (references; author: unknown)

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986)

A Parking Lot Story (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bluegrass Guitar Solos Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know (reference)

• Luigi's All-Night Parking Lot (reference)

• Parking Lot Landscape Development (Community Landscape Development Series) (reference)

• Possum in the Parking Lot (reference)

• The parking lot and garage security handbook (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Harry Potter Parking Lot (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Parking Lot Music (reference)

• Parking Lot Pimpin' [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Pennies in the Parking Lot (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is a suburban low brown building, with a parking lot, which houses a clinic. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

The photo shows a model of the Children's Inn in an overhead shot from the front. The model includes the Inn itself, a parking lot and surrounding space and trees. The Children's Inn houses families of children undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Herring House site prior to restoration activities. The site consisted primarily of a parking lot. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Butter and eggs - Scrophulariaceae Linaria vulgaris in a Swift parking lot area . Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Green beans, fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA.

Sweet Corn. Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmers Market held on a parking lot at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC. Market day is every Friday during the growing and harvest season. Credit: USDA.

Yellow squash. Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmers Market held on a parking lot at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC. Market day is every Thursday during the growing and harvest season. Credit: USDA.

Petit Pan Squash. Fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA.

Motorcycle trail from parking lot off 8th St RoadOHVOff Highway VehiclesFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown.

Trailhead and parking lot at Trail Creek. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Minorities

Israel and the occupied territories

In August the municipality of Tel Aviv advertised for parking lot attendants; "military service" was a prerequisite. (references)

Worker Rights

Gabon

On December 12, three strikers were injured in clashes with police officers called in when strikers locked the gates of city hall and set fires in the parking lot. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "parking lot": surface parking lot. Additional references.

Albanian

vend parkimi (car park, Park, stall). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موقف (attitude, garage, halt, park, position, shutoff, situation, stance, stand, station, stop, taxi stand), ‏باحة وقوف السيارات (park). (various references)

Bulgarian 

паркинг. (various references)

Chinese 

存車處 . (various references)

Czech

parkovištì (car park, Park). (various references)

Danish

parkeringsplads (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space). (various references)

Dutch

parkeerterrein (car park, lay-by, parking bay, parking garage, parking place), parkeerruimte (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space), parkeerplaats (car park, lay-by, parking bay, parking garage, parking place), parkee rgarage (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space), autostalling (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space). (various references)

Finnish

paikoitusalue. (various references)

French

parking (parking), parc-autos (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space), parc stationnement (car park), parc de stationnement automobile (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space), parc de stationnement (car parking), parc � voitures (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space), autoparc (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space). (various references)

German

parkplatz (car park, Park, parking, parking place, parking space). (various references)

Greek 

σταθμός αυτοκινήτων (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space), υπαίθριος χώρος στάθμευσης (car park, parking, parking area, parking place, parking space), χώροσ στάθμευσησ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'רש ח� י�" (car park, carpark), ח� יי�". (various references)

Hungarian

parkolóhely (car park, park, parking space, parking spot), parkolóház (multi-storey car park, parking garage), emeletes parkoló (multi-storey car park, parking garage), autóparkoló (car park). (various references)

Italian

parcheggio (car park, carpark, Park, parking). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

駐車� � (parking place). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちゅうしゃじょう (parking place). (various references)

Pig Latin

arkingpay otlay.(various references)

Portuguese

parque de estacionamento (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space), área de estacionamento (lay-by, parking zone, turn-out). (various references)

Romanian

parcaj, spaţiu de parcare. (various references)

Russian 

стоянка автомашин (car-park, parking garage), стоянка для машин, стоянка (berth, carpark, parking, parking place, parking space, stand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

parkiralište (car park, park). (various references)

Spanish

aparcamiento (car park, lay-by, parking, parking bay, parking garage, parking place, parking space). (various references)

Swedish

parkeringsplats (car park, lay by, layby), bilparkering (parking, parking area, parking place, parking space). (various references)

Turkish

otopark (car park, Park, parking). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: paroling, polkaing, trigonal, troaking.

-3 letters: antilog, atropin, galipot, graplin, karting, larking, orating, parking, parling, parting, pignora, plating, porting, prating, talking, troking.

-4 letters: aroint, galiot, gitano, gloria, gratin, inkpot, kalong, kaolin, kation, laking, latigo, latino, loping, oaring, onagri, opting, origan, paling, paring, parton, patrol, patron, plaint, pliant, poking, poling, pontil, poring, portal, prolan, ragtop.

+2 letters: outsparkling.