van
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Short for caravan.
Inflected forms:
form: vans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
pos: noun
examples: While Santa Monica has a longstanding prohibition against public camping that includes living in vehicles, the van rental business has been a problem in Venice for years. […] Organizations that provide safe parking locations have limited capacity and are often unable to accommodate the kind of non-operational vans that are being repurposed as makeshift housing.
Carbon emissions from vans in the UK have risen by 63% since 1990, new analysis shows, as cars are getting cleaner. While more people are opting to drive electric or plug-in hybrid cars, van drivers still prefer diesel because electric vans are much more expensive with little choice of models.
gloss: An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
pos: noun
examples: Designed to be fully mobile and self-contained, the complete equipment includes an air-conditioned van containing all necessary electronic gear and a flat bed trailer in which missiles, jet engines and other large assemblies may be cleaned.
gloss: To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
[They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.
gloss: Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us got vanned so he can keep the network up. What he did certainly wasn't the plan." (Getting "vanned" refers to getting picked up by the police.)
He later told CW that he had been "v&" or "vanned" by the police, and he expressed surprise that the police showed him detailed transcripts of his conversations.
But not before someone supposedly forwarded all the information onto the FBI. In a last-ditch effort to avoid getting "vanned," Naratto tried to put the memie back in the bottle
2015 13-year-old credited with hacking CIA director’s AOL account gives bizarre, possibly final interview
The hacker says he thinks he is about to be v&, or “vanned,” meaning being raided by law enforcement, sometime soon.
On Wednesday night, Motherboard spoke to the teenager accused of being Cracka. "I got fucking v&," he told Motherboard, using "v&," the slang for "vanned," or getting arrested. (At this point, the arrest had not been made public.)
Commander X: Yep, so now you all know how I got vanned. And you just met the snitch who did it to me.
Related words: lorry
transit
truck
Derived words: armored van
baggage van
box van
brake van
camper van
car-body van
conversion van
cube van
delivery van
detector van
divvy van
dollar van
driving van trailer
e-van
ferry van
gas van
goods van
guard's van
ice cream van
loony van
luggage van
Luton van
motor-van
moving van
ninja van
panel van
party van
patrol van
pedo van
police van
public utility van
rape van
removal van
security van
serial killer van
serial-killer van
tally van
van courier
van-courier
van-dragger
van-dragging
van-girl
vanily
white van man
white van speakers
v&
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