pickle park
American trucking slang for a rest area on a highway — the kind of roadside stop where long-haul truck drivers pull over to sleep, eat, or use facilities.
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American trucking slang for a rest area on a highway — the kind of roadside stop where long-haul truck drivers pull over to sleep, eat, or use facilities. The term has a slightly seedy connotation, as rest areas have historically been associated with casual sexual encounters. Used on CB radio and in trucking culture.
He pulled the rig into the pickle park just past the state line and killed the engine.
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(US, slang) A rest area.
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