double yellow line

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English

Noun

double yellow line (plural double yellow lines)

  1. (UK) A pair of yellow lines painted at the side of a road to show that parking is not permitted at any time.
    • 1995, Nina Fletcher, Janet Holt, Ethics, law, and nursing:
      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 ...
    • 1998, Ruth Gairns, Stuart Redman, True to life: English for adult learners.:
      I'm sorry, you were parking on a double yellow line, you've got a ticket.
    • 1999, Ruth Rendell, A site for sore eyes:
      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.
    • 2001, Julian Symons, A Three-Pipe Problem:
      When he reached the street Claber and the girl were crossing the road to a Mercedes coupé, parked on a double yellow line.
  2. A pair of yellow lines painted along the middle of a road to show that traffic should not cross into the oncoming lane
    • 1987 May, Popular Science:
      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.
    • 1998, Jack C. Richards, Jonathan Hull, Susan Proctor, New interchange: English for international communication:
      Police officer: Well, for one thing, you went over a double yellow line back there to pass a car.
    • 2000, Bob Bondurant, Edwin J. Sanow, Bob Bondurant on police and pursuit driving:
      Hutchison observed the Buick cross the double yellow line to pass a car at the bottom of a dip.

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