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parking ticket

British  

noun

  1. a summons served for a parking offence

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Take a spot with your Tesla or Hyundai, and you might get a parking ticket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

“I received a death sentence from the regime,” he said, as calmly as others might say they got a parking ticket.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

The image includes a chaotic menagerie of an old hotel and a crowded street, including everything from Djo himself hanging from a window, a kissing couple and a parking ticket dispute.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

If I get a parking ticket, I will make my own coffee this month, or whatever.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025

Then he finds a parking ticket in your coat, proving you spent two hours in the middle of the day parked somewhere in the center of town.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith