a shortened version of the infamous town on long island, Amityville. Mostly used by the black population or kids who go to public school there...aka the black people, considering the high school is approx. 65% black.
by aaely September 1, 2006
by AKIJSDH October 25, 2018
An abbreviation of Jacksonville, Florida- most commonly used before it was widely known as Duval County.
by KtMB September 4, 2008
Here is something someone has once written in urban dictionary that I think is funny, because it's my name. Look how this text tells the truth. Hahah not at all, it says that i'm total human garbage, how funny. This is humour these days and I must do this because other people are doing it.
by Litaralsheep January 16, 2019
Canaryville is a small Chicago neighborhood next to the old Stockyards on the south side. Bounded by Halsted, Canal, 39th & 49th, it has been a part of Chicago since 1889, when it was annexed from the Township of Lake. “Canaryville” enjoyed a reputation as one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city from the late nineteenth through much of the twentieth century. A largely Irish community on the South Side adjacent to Bridgeport in the New City community area.
Given its close proximity to the stockyards, the area's physical environment and economic life were shaped by livestock and meatpacking from the 1860s until the industry's decline in the postwar era. Canaryville's name may originally have derived from the legions of sparrows who populated the area at the end of the nineteenth century, feeding off stockyard refuse and grain from railroad cars, but the term was also applied to the neighborhood's rambunctious youth, its “wild canaries.” Gangs helped establish the neighborhood's truculent reputation and were active in attacks on African Americans during the 1919 Race Riot. Boasting a strong Democratic Party machine throughout the twentieth century, Canaryville also embraced a rich Roman Catholic cultural life centered on St. Gabriel's Parish. With the closing of the stockyards and the International Amphitheatre, population in the area began declining in the 1960s. Still populated largely by Irish, Canaryville now includes a sizeable Mexican community.
by 4rte December 11, 2008
The Ville is a ghetto fabulous term for the city of Roseville, California. But the streets in The Ville are dangerous. There are gangs like CCM. It does strike fear into those that hear it.
by mathew tessmann November 29, 2007