tinkie n.— «As I understand it, and I can’t claim fully to understand, they spend the Scottish winter in Australia touring their relatives in a camper van and building themselves a sort of ecological dream house near Perth in the west...
preesh v.— «I’ve been trying to follow the news, but I’m lost: does someone want to tell me what the hell is going on in Lebanon? Preesh.» —“The world is going crazy” by Zut van Rijn (zutaloo) UC Davis LiveJournal...
shape v.— «Each weekday United Hispanic workers “shape”—search for work—by driving throughout Manhattan and the Bronx and visiting job sites.…As the shape van wound down to ground zero and back to the Bronx, a picture of...
hopper n.— «Santos Martinez, owner of New Age Auto in Fort Collins, comes to Greeley’s Cinco de Mayo car show every year. His shop brought three cars this year: a ’53 Chevy, an ’86 Chevy Astro van and a hopper—slang for a...
straight plate n.— «After the hearing, Ricketts said that van operators should be given more leeway when it comes to bus routes, because abiding by the rule forces commuter vans to residential streets and makes it easier for illegal vans...
bolter n.— «We have the “bolters” and the “browsers.” The bolters just want to come in for a quick look around, so if they just sit there and do nothing else but have a look at the eight minute film, that will give...