meter maid

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meter maid

noun meter maids · meter-maid

  1. A female meter attendant: a female public servant tasked with enforcing the use of parking meters. Lovely Rita meter maid / Nothing can come between us / When it gets dark I tow your heart away / Standing by a parking meter / When I caught a glimpse of Rita / Filling in a ticket in her little white book
  2. derogatory A meter attendant of either gender.

Similar: grey ghost, meter attendant, parking enforcement officer, parking inspector, traffic warden

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@misc{meter_maid_2026,
  title = {meter maid},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/meter%20maid},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}