curb service
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ernest H. Carter was fined $550 for drunken driving after he pulled into a brightly illuminated suburban police station, tooted his horn, told a cop he was there for curb service, ordered coffee and a hamburger."
- "Despite a reported police crackdown, young men selling illegal fireworks were providing their usual Fourth of July curb service to passing motorists yesterday."
- "The U.S. Postal Service says "curb service" will also be available tomorrow night so that taxpayers can drive up to the post office and hand the forms, in stamped envelopes, to postal employees."
- "George Barry, the dump's manager, found $8,500 in negotiable securities. He delivered them to the door of the woman who had thrown them out, a kind of reverse curb service."
- "In San Diego, they have curb service check-in. You show your eTicket and drop your bags off with a skycap."
- "Two bulk items are allowed for curb service on the last Friday of each month only."
Usage
- American usage
- Uncountable