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ドライブイン
ドライブイン
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drive in
ドライブイン is English drive-in, equal to ドライブ (doraibu) plus イン (in).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
次のドライブインで休憩していこう。
Let's turn off at the next rest stop.
街道沿いのドライブインで昼食をとった。
We had lunch at a roadside restaurant.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From English drive-in, equivalent to ドライブ (doraibu) + イン (in).”
Source: Wiktionary: ドライブイン (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.