double yellow line

plural double yellow lines

1. UKA pair of yellow lines painted at the side of a road to show that parking is not permitted at any time.

   I'm sorry, you were parking on a double yellow line, you've got a ticket.

   1998, Ruth Gairns, Stuart Redman, True to life: English for adult learners.

   3 more examples

   The person who parked their car on the double yellow line may be a doctor who has been called urgently to the house of a critically ill patient ...

   1995, Nina Fletcher, Janet Holt, Ethics, law, and nursing

   He knew it would be risky parking on a double yellow line, or even a single yellow line, at this hour, but in a side street off the back of Kensington Church Street he found areas demarcated on the roadway with white lines.

   1999, Ruth Rendell, A site for sore eyes

   When he reached the street Claber and the girl were crossing the road to a Mercedes coupé, parked on a double yellow line.

   2001, Julian Symons, A Three-Pipe Problem

2. A pair of yellow lines painted along the middle of a road to show that traffic should not cross into the oncoming lane

   Hutchison observed the Buick cross the double yellow line to pass a car at the bottom of a dip.

   2000, Bob Bondurant, Edwin J. Sanow, Bob Bondurant on police and pursuit driving

   2 more examples

   The photo on pages 22 and 23 of your February issue shows the driver of a Chevy Beretta topping a hill and rounding a curve on the wrong side of a double yellow line.

   1987 May, Popular Science

   Police officer: Well, for one thing, you went over a double yellow line back there to pass a car.

   1998, Jack C. Richards, Jonathan Hull, Susan Proctor, New interchange: English for international communication