parking metre BrE
parking meter AmE , also: meter **

He left her later to go and put a coin in a parking meter.

He hit a parking meter and stumbled into the street.

Every two hours, she goes out to feed the parking meter.

I fell against one of the city's excellent parking meters.

"Hey, do you know what happened to all the parking meters?"

And I don't stop to give change for a parking meter.

The city did not get its first parking meter until 1951.

Only 7,000 of the city's almost 16,000 parking meters work.

One insisted the other day that I had left my car four and a half hours at a parking meter.

Much of this is paid for with income from local parking meters.