Parking is the act of stopping a vehicle, exiting it, and leaving the vehicle unoccupied for more than a brief time. It is against the law virtually everywhere to park a vehicle in the middle of a highway or road. In all countries where motor vehicles are in common use, specialized parking facilities are routinely constructed in combination with most structures to facilitate the coming and going of the structures' users.
Parking facilities include indoor and outdoor private property belonging to a house, the side of the road, a parking lot or car park, and indoor and outdoor multi-level structures.
In the U.S., after the first public parking garage was opened in Boston, May 24, 1898, livery stables in urban centers began to be converted into garages. In cities of the Eastern US, many former livery stables, with lifts for carriages, continue to operate as garages today.
The following terms exemplify regional variations in language. All except ''carport'' refer to outdoor multi-level parking facilities. In some regional dialects, some of these phrases refer also to indoor or single-level facilities.
*''Parking ramp'' (used in some parts of the upper Midwest, especially Minneapolis, but sometimes seen as far east as Toledo, Ohio). In Minneapolis, this term ''never'' refers to an indoor facility; that would be called a ''parking garage''.
*''Multi-storey car park'' (England)
*''Parkade'' (Canada, South Africa)
*''Parking structure'' (Western U.S.)
*''Parking garage'' (Eastern USA, where this term refuses to distinguish between outdoor multi-level parking facilities and indoor parking facilities; to a Minneapolitan this term emphatically says indoor parking facility; to a Bostonian it does not.)
*''Parking deck'' (Sighted in both New Jersey and North Carolina.)
*''Carport'' (open-air covered parking)
Parking facilities include indoor and outdoor private property belonging to a house, the side of the road, a parking lot or car park, and indoor and outdoor multi-level structures.
In the U.S., after the first public parking garage was opened in Boston, May 24, 1898, livery stables in urban centers began to be converted into garages. In cities of the Eastern US, many former livery stables, with lifts for carriages, continue to operate as garages today.
The following terms exemplify regional variations in language. All except ''carport'' refer to outdoor multi-level parking facilities. In some regional dialects, some of these phrases refer also to indoor or single-level facilities.
*''Parking ramp'' (used in some parts of the upper Midwest, especially Minneapolis, but sometimes seen as far east as Toledo, Ohio). In Minneapolis, this term ''never'' refers to an indoor facility; that would be called a ''parking garage''.
*''Multi-storey car park'' (England)
*''Parkade'' (Canada, South Africa)
*''Parking structure'' (Western U.S.)
*''Parking garage'' (Eastern USA, where this term refuses to distinguish between outdoor multi-level parking facilities and indoor parking facilities; to a Minneapolitan this term emphatically says indoor parking facility; to a Bostonian it does not.)
*''Parking deck'' (Sighted in both New Jersey and North Carolina.)
*''Carport'' (open-air covered parking)
by GrandMarquisLS November 28, 2005
Short for Parkinson's Disease. A word commonly used to describe someone portraying the traits of Parkinson's Disease. such traits include random shaking, excessive sweating, slouched posture, dragging feet, slurred speech. If these symptoms continue for a long duration of time have your acquaintance see a doctor.
Person A: Dude, why are you shaking
Park's person: Iunno man I'm trying to stop
Person A: Dude you have Park's
Park's person: Iunno man I'm trying to stop
Person A: Dude you have Park's
by koozkatz March 3, 2010
You mention the park
Meet me there .. ?
Cake?
How would I ever know what/ where/ when?
A year ago my boys still let me take them to the park .. now they meet their friends.
I’m kinda wary of men hanging around parks by themselves … don’t really want to be a hypocrite…
So unlikely I would think …
I guess it depresses me some days to think you may actually be somewhere hoping for miracles …
Other days I think …
If you wanted to like go somewhere/ meet me you’d actually ask and not the day after on urban
lol then again I guess nobody cares what I think …
Getting to the point I don’t either …
Full on recluse
Fuelled by doubts
And the wonder if SB is laughing directly at me before reporting back to the clique …
Meet me there .. ?
Cake?
How would I ever know what/ where/ when?
A year ago my boys still let me take them to the park .. now they meet their friends.
I’m kinda wary of men hanging around parks by themselves … don’t really want to be a hypocrite…
So unlikely I would think …
I guess it depresses me some days to think you may actually be somewhere hoping for miracles …
Other days I think …
If you wanted to like go somewhere/ meet me you’d actually ask and not the day after on urban
lol then again I guess nobody cares what I think …
Getting to the point I don’t either …
Full on recluse
Fuelled by doubts
And the wonder if SB is laughing directly at me before reporting back to the clique …
Park …
by LetsTalkAboutX April 29, 2023
by beesknees2 February 8, 2009
My name is Parke.
by Parke with an E March 11, 2019
More unique fist bump. One person holds up the rock and roll sign (pointer and pinky fingers) and have palm facing down (like a parking lot) and the other person makes a fist and puts it between the two fingers (parking the car) and says "beep beep"
by Penguinos December 31, 2016
by Cack McHorny January 4, 2009