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single yellow line en · NOUN

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1. (UK) A single yellow line painted at the side of a road to show that parking is permitted only at specified times.
   • She hugged the single yellow line, but she drove fast. 1989, Melvin Dixon, Trouble the Water:
   • 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 Sight for Sore Eyes:
   • The postman in question was parked on a single yellow line with parking-time restrictions. 2007, Barrie Segal, The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell:
   • At half past eleven, Roy Grace parked his Alfa Romeo on a single yellow line outside the unlit shop window of a dealer specializing in retro twentieth-century furniture. 2006, Peter James, Looking Good Dead:

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double yellow line · Thin Red Line · thin blue line · red line