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Pronounced: Van-yay

A ghetto community in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is notorious for being populated mostly by drug dealers, hookers, the homeless and alcoholics. The unofficial motto of this community is "I WILL CUT YOU!"
'Yo, brah, where you live?'
'In Vanier.'
'Daaang, mofo, dat place is CRAZY.'
by Ginevra Shatner October 20, 2006
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Abbreviation for “Dude Arguing Online”.

Plural: “DAOs”

Coined by Twitter user @karakittel.
Would the internet exist without DAOs? Sadly, I don’t think so.
by monkeylabor June 13, 2021
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ghetto in Ottawa, which is sometimes referred to as a city by itself. Populated mostly by drunks and the homeless, hookers and drug dealers flourish in its dirty, skanky streets. see ottawa
'Yo, brah, I'mma be all up in Vanier.'
'Bro, why you do dat shit? Y'all no Vanyay's(Vanier's) ghett-to!'
by boss ladi October 20, 2006
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Pronounced Van-Yay

ghetto in Ottawa, which is sometimes referred to as a city by itself. Populated mostly by drunks and the homeless, hookers and drug dealers flourish in its dirty, skanky streets. see ottawa
'Yo, brah, I'mma be all up in Vanier.'
'Bro, why you do dat shit? Y'all no Vanyay's(Vanier's) ghett-to!'
by boss ladi October 21, 2006
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