meter maid

1. 1.

   policewoman who is assigned to write parking tickets

   Broaderpolice matron

Questions about meter maid

What does meter maid mean?

meter maid means "policewoman who is assigned to write parking tickets".

Is meter maid a common word?

meter maid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.