car jockeying

car jockeying
 n.β€” Β«The same vehicles parked on Main Street stay there all day long, and in most cases, the owners return every two hours to purposely move their cars up a space or two to avoid a ticket in the two-hour-limit area, town officials say.…Car jockeyingβ€”commonly used by office workers to skirt the enforced two-hour meter limitβ€”is hurting downtown businesses.Β» β€”β€œNow, car jockeys in Boonton may pay for crime” by Tehani Schneider in Boonton Daily Record (Parsippany, New Jersey) Nov. 12, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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