Idiom
feed the meter
Meaning
To place coins into a parking meter or gas meter.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I need to feed the meter before I go into the store.”
“She ran back to her car to feed the meter because she did not want to get a parking ticket.”
“After realizing the time had expired, he rushed outside to feed the meter, hoping to avoid the fine that the officer was already writing.”
Examples
simple
“I need to feed the meter before I go into the store.”
contextual
“She ran back to her car to feed the meter because she did not want to get a parking ticket.”
complex
“After realizing the time had expired, he rushed outside to feed the meter, hoping to avoid the fine that the officer was already writing.”
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