meter maid
noun1
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 book1967, Lennon–McCartney, “Lovely Rita”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, performed by The Beatles:
- She worked as a meter maid. Almost like a song: Lovely Jenny, meter maid.2000, Charles Baxter, chapter 3, in The Feast of Love, page 36:
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Derogatory A meter attendant of either gender.
- Synonyms
- grey ghost, meter attendant, parking enforcement officer, parking inspector, traffic warden