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.