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Definition of van down by the river

van down by the river

noun

  • where a person in bad circumstances lives. From a Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Chris Farley.
    If you don't study hard in school, you'll be living in a van down by the river.
                                                                              

                                   

    Citation from Munchery.com radio commercial censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Sep 25 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 25 2015.

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Other terms relating to 'by':

Definitions include: See five by five.
Definitions include: acronym for "by the way".
Definitions include: eventually.
Definitions include: general exclamation.
Definitions include: by oneself.
Definitions include: strictly following procedure.
Definitions include: narrowly.
Definitions include: an execution carried out with firearms shot from a moving vehicle.
Definitions include: something disappeared under unknown circumstances.
Definitions include: fine, good, okay.
Definitions include: adjective.
Definitions include: to catch or trap a person in a difficult situation.
Definitions include: to have the advantage in a situation.
Definitions include: to be in a very good position in life, business, etc.
Definitions include: To live with the present being the most important; to live a dream or to understand the unchanging world, so to speak.

Other terms relating to 'down':

Definitions include: to prepare for hardship.
Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
Definitions include: to back down from a situation.
Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet.
Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god."
Definitions include: to sadden one.
Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd.
Definitions include: unattractive.
Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people.
Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in.
Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
Definitions include: to eat.
Definitions include: to give someone oral sex.
Definitions include: to stop being angry.

Other terms relating to 'river':

Definitions include: an expression used to indicate someone is in denial.
Definitions include: to get the last card in Texas Hold'em.
Definitions include: usually a term given to someone from Mississippi. Generally not derogative.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

Other terms relating to 'van':

Definitions include: a paddy wagon.

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