Etymology

driveway moment

Today it means: A brief compulsion to finish listening to something on the radio before leaving one's car. Full definition →

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The story

Marketing coinage of NPR (National Public Radio), who used the phrase to encourage listeners to send in stories about what they had been listening to.

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