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Vantucky

Vantucky proper noun: derogatory name for Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.

Proper noun

Vantucky

  1. (derogatory, informal, mildly, pejorative, slang) derogatory name for Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.
    • It follows on the success of their longtime “Vantucky Strikes Back” shirts (right).2011 May 17, “Cafe offers 'Vantucky Strikes Back' T-shirts, humor along with coffee”, in The Oregonian
    • Oregon is different than Vantucky? Not really.2013 February 15, Allan Brettman, “Nike built World Headquarters without government perks”, in The Oregonian

Examples of Vantucky in a sentence

  • Hungry for some cosmic consciousness on a September weekend, Portlander Keith Picone ventured north to what he usually called “Vantucky” to check out our 10th annual Peace and Justice Fair.2014 May 17, Scott Hewitt, “Welcome to Vancooler Washington”, in The Columbian:
  • And if the drivers from Vantucky don't like it they can take a boat across the Mighty Columbia and a prop plane out of Fort Vancouver.2013 May 24, Richard Read, “Skagit River Interstate 5 bridge collapse could cause Washington legislators to fund Columbia River Crossing”...
  • And they're assuming the fry is from Portland and not Vantucky or Beaverton or Hillsboro.2014 April 25, Kevin McFarland, “Grimm: “Nobody Knows The Trubel I've Seen"”, in A.V. Club:
  • Leavitt embraced the bridge plan, in part, as a way to end the Vantucky punchlines.2014 December 19, Peter Robison, “Bridge of 1917 Remains Deathtrap as Infrastructure Decays”, in Bloomberg:

Origin of Vantucky

CB radio slang. Blend of Vancouver + Kentucky. Named to mock the residents being seen as more "rural" than the surrounding cities, mistaken for being people from Kentucky.

Questions about Vantucky

What does Vantucky mean?
Vantucky means derogatory name for Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.
How do you use Vantucky in a sentence?
Hungry for some cosmic consciousness on a September weekend, Portlander Keith Picone ventured north to what he usually called “Vantucky” to check out our 10th annual Peace and Justice Fair.
What part of speech is Vantucky?
Vantucky is a proper noun.

Words near Vantucky in the dictionary

  1. Vantines
  2. Vantrease
  3. Vantreases
  4. Vantroba
  5. vants
  6. Vantucky
  7. Vantuyl
  8. Vantuyls
  9. Vanua Balavu
  10. Vanua Levu
  11. Vanuatu

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