double park

A form of double-park — To illegally park a car next to a car already parked on the side of a street, obstructing traffic.

Meanings

verbdouble park (third-person singular simple present double parks, present participle double parking, simple past and past participle double parked)

present singular third person double parks · participle present double parking · participle past double parked · past double parked

  1. alternativeAlternative form of double-park.

    Keisha decided to double park and blocked Pastor Blake Bentley.

    2014, Janice Burkett, Kiss Me on the Inside, →ISBN
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    They double park. They park next to fire hydrants. They ignore meters, rarely troubling to fish for coins in the cushions of their seats (not that their zlotys, crowns, and francs would do them any good.)

    2005, Andrew Thomas Breslin, Mother's Milk, →ISBN, page 156

    In deciding whether to double park, a resident of Econville will compare his benefit from double parking to the expected fine.. .Therefore, to achieve optimal deterrence – that is, deterrence only of those double-parking violations in which the benefits are less than the [previously stipulated] $10 congestion cost – it is necessary for the expected fine to equal $10. . .

    2005, Francesco Parisi, Vernon L. Smith, The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior, →ISBN, page 268

    A risk-neutral person will double park if his benefit exceeds the expected fine.

    2018, A. Mitchell Polinsky, An Introduction To Law and Economics, →ISBN
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