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Woman on the street delighted to fit into parking space (3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bag lady

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'woman on the street' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'delighted to fit into parking space' is the wordplay.
'delighted' becomes 'glad' (I've seen this before).
'to fit into' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'parking space' becomes 'bay' (a parking bay).
'glad' placed inside 'bay' is 'BAG LADY'.

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(Other definitions for bag lady that I've seen before include "Homeless individual" , "Vagrant" , "Homeless female" , "Homeless woman" , "homeless person" .)

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