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Drive in   /draɪv ɪn/   Listen
Drive in

verb
1.
Cause a run or runner to be scored.
2.
Arrive by motorcar.
3.
Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion.  Synonym: screw.






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"Drive in" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Jane had gone out for a drive in the doll's perambulator. There was no one in the nursery, and it was very quiet. Presently there was a little scuffling, scratching noise in a corner near the fireplace, where there was a hole under ...
— A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories • Beatrix Potter

... hands in his, and, gazing with mock gravity up into her face as she stood over him, "What a little tyrant you are developing into!" he remarked, knitting his brows. "Will you order the carriage, and take a drive in my company?" ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley

... London season, you know, and I have no town house, so they were glad to have their old friend here for a little in the dull time. Mrs. Armitage is a very active young lady, and was scarcely in the house half an hour before she arranged a drive in a pony-cart with Eva—my daughter—to look up old people in the village that she used to know before she was married. So they set off in the afternoon, and made such a round of it that they were late for dinner. Mrs. Armitage had a small plain gold brooch—not at all valuable, you know; two or ...
— Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison

... heard the coach drive in, which put me into a little fear, and a sort of shivering came over me. But by that time he was alighted and come in I had pretty well recovered myself; and as soon as I saw him I rose up and advanced ...
— The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself • Thomas Ellwood

... many weeks, during the season, when we shall have neither onions, potatoes, nor fresh meat. It is feared that the former will not keep through the whole winter, and the rancheros cannot at all times drive in cattle for butchering, on account of the ...
— The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe


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