A small town in southwest Virginia that reminds you of that girl in your math class who is very pretty and sweet, but doesn't have much to offer beyond that. Young people in Abingdon learn to entertain themselves, because the alternative is just too terrible. Popular activities include recreational drug use and blowing up things they find at the grocery store with fireworks.
by maryla September 30, 2007
Get the Abingdon mug.A small town in Harford County, Maryland with a population of about 23,511. Covered with part of the Chesapeake Bay, farms, woodlands, and suburbs. Some people think that all we do is cowtipping and bathing in the crick, but there is a lot to do here. We have a movie theater, minigolf, tons of restaurants, and a lot more. Formerly known as Harford Town, or Bush, this was where the first Declaration of Independence was adopted. Always somehow gets more snow than other towns in Harco. Next to Edgewood, the gang, drug, and crime capital of Eastern Maryland. Home to Broom's Bloom, only the best ice cream place in Maryland. Often confused with a district of Bel Air because of its size and not many people have heard of it. Everybody knows each other, so everybody is saying hi to each other as they pick up their crabcakes and pizza from Box Hill Pizzeria. About 75% of the males from ages 12-19 are street skaters so that is not an uncommon site. Overall, Harford County's best-kept secret.
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possibly the most boring town in britain, despite the historic buildings, since their interest has been cancelled out by the abominable "precinct" a revoltingly seventies concrete structure which smells of B.O on saturdays.
you really don't want to visit abingdon
by genius May 25, 2003
Get the abingdon mug.A small town in southwest Virginia, known for it's Highlands Festival each year. Living there makes one's life freeze or be permanently put on hold.
Please leave now if you don't want to waste it all.
Hometown of actors Gregory Peck and Ernest Borgnine, fashion photographer Jon Coulthard, film director Pax deChirico.
Please leave now if you don't want to waste it all.
Hometown of actors Gregory Peck and Ernest Borgnine, fashion photographer Jon Coulthard, film director Pax deChirico.
by chance April 8, 2005
Get the abingdon mug.Otherwise known as Scabingdon. Boring dull, lifeless town near oxford. Breeds an especially wierd lot of people.
by Prettyprincess February 2, 2005
Get the abingdon mug.A small town in Harford County Maryland near Bel Air and Edgewood. There's really nothing there besides grocery stores and a corporate center which holds the social security building. Nothing much to do at all, you have to go into Bel Air or ghetto Edgewood for anything remotely exciting.
"Where do you live again?"
"Abingdon."
"Where's that?"
"Northern Harford County, near Bel Air and...you know what, it doesn't matter."
"Abingdon."
"Where's that?"
"Northern Harford County, near Bel Air and...you know what, it doesn't matter."
by k.i.a August 7, 2009
Get the Abingdon mug.County Seat of Washington County, Virginia, in southwestern Virginia about fifteen miles northeast of the Tennesse border. Population ca. 6,000.
Active (live-)stock market, seasonal burley tobacco market, site of Federal District court which accounts for beaucoup (way too many) attorneys for hire.
Biggest cultural attributes are probably the annual Virginia Highlands Festival held on the campus of Virginia Highlands Community College, waggishly referred to as "UCLA(q.v.)," and the Barter Theater, the State Theater of Virginia. Contrary to popular opinion, neither Gregory Peck nor Ernest Borgnine was born or grew up in Abingdon, nor Ned Beatty, although they all played the Barter early in their careers.
Worst-kept secret: The really choice furniture, antiques and miscellaneous items (and often, quite good deals) are not to be found at the open-air Highlands Festival, but at a semi-secret rummage sale held by a consortium of downtown Mainline Protestant churches, named for Plum Alley, which the week-long event occupies.
Little-known facts:
. Interstate 81 runs along eastern edge of town and affords easy access to Bristol, where there is also nothing for young people to do.
. One of several thousand communities in the USA that has earned the right to call itself "the buckle on the bible belt."
. Just for fun, Google for "Abington, Virginia" (note misspelling).
Active (live-)stock market, seasonal burley tobacco market, site of Federal District court which accounts for beaucoup (way too many) attorneys for hire.
Biggest cultural attributes are probably the annual Virginia Highlands Festival held on the campus of Virginia Highlands Community College, waggishly referred to as "UCLA(q.v.)," and the Barter Theater, the State Theater of Virginia. Contrary to popular opinion, neither Gregory Peck nor Ernest Borgnine was born or grew up in Abingdon, nor Ned Beatty, although they all played the Barter early in their careers.
Worst-kept secret: The really choice furniture, antiques and miscellaneous items (and often, quite good deals) are not to be found at the open-air Highlands Festival, but at a semi-secret rummage sale held by a consortium of downtown Mainline Protestant churches, named for Plum Alley, which the week-long event occupies.
Little-known facts:
. Interstate 81 runs along eastern edge of town and affords easy access to Bristol, where there is also nothing for young people to do.
. One of several thousand communities in the USA that has earned the right to call itself "the buckle on the bible belt."
. Just for fun, Google for "Abington, Virginia" (note misspelling).
"Abingdon, Virginia? Where is this Abingdon? How long to drive there from Richmond?"
"Oh, about six, seven hours if the Interstates don't clot up too much."
"That's impossible. Nowhere in Virginia takes seven hours to reach from the state capital."
"Look on a road map, for the extreme Southwestern tip which they always put in a separate little box."
"Oh, about six, seven hours if the Interstates don't clot up too much."
"That's impossible. Nowhere in Virginia takes seven hours to reach from the state capital."
"Look on a road map, for the extreme Southwestern tip which they always put in a separate little box."
by al-in-chgo February 26, 2010
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