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Pulling through a parking space
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2010/04/18 - 9:13pm

Sometime back I heard the term for pulling through parking spot. I cannot find it on the web or on this website. Maybe someone else remembers. Help.

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2010/05/01 - 5:56pm

How disappointing - I find "pullthrough" (one word or two) used a lot on the web. A commenter on http://1000awesomethings.com/2008/12/08/879-the-parking-lot-pull-through/ suggests it should be called a "sprew," but I'm not feeling that (an expression my 20-year-old cousin brought home from college).

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2010/05/04 - 12:14am

My grandparents had a travel trailer which they used when visiting national parks across the west from the 1940s to the '80s. When they arrived at a campground, the choice spots were "pullthroughs" which were constructed to allow you to drive through, like a small circular driveway. That way you could pull straight in one side to park, and when you were ready to leave you could drive out the other side without reversing. Other spots, which were more like parking spaces, required you to back the trailer in, which usually took more time and effort. I don't recall hearing a term used for the act of pulling through.

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2015/05/21 - 7:24pm

Sprue! This word means to pull through the first space into the second one for easy exit. It is also the prime second spot itself.

That's the single-word term I know for this. "Pull-through" is also used, but I like "sprue".

Here's a reference to it in the Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sprue

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2015/05/22 - 2:19am

burntsox said
How disappointing - I find "pullthrough" (one word or two) used a lot on the web. A commenter on http://1000awesomethings.com/2008/12/08/879-the-parking-lot-pull-through/ suggests it should be called a "sprew," but I'm not feeling that (an expression my 20-year-old cousin brought home from college).

Arre you sure you have the spelling right?  Sprue is a channel through which plastic (or pot metal, eyc.) flows in a molding process. 

It's also a (more commonly tropical) disorder that causes diarrhea.

Sounds like all three of those are referring to "flow-through".  Sounds like my finances.  I'm doing much better these days, though.  It seems like money goes out the minute I get it, but when I had a wife, it disappeared long before it arrived.

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2015/05/22 - 10:43am

Welcome!

I love sprue for this. My wife and I always call it a pull-through, but I will adopt the new term, and try to convince my wife as well.

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