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- proper noun informal, somewhat derogatory A
nickname for Vancouver referring to thelarge-scale Chinese Canadian immigration to that city in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly from Hong Kong.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He'd washed out of the nearly-best, what the fuck, beat spending his prime years in Hongcouver writing government-standard code for the Ministry of Unbelievable Dullness.
Boing Boing: August 25, 2002 - August 31, 2002 Archives 2002
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And, navigating the web here is still faster than it is back in Onterrible or Hongcouver.
Archive 2005-12-01 Carlo Artieri 2005
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And, navigating the web here is still faster than it is back in Onterrible or Hongcouver.
I've Found The Middle of Nowhere!!!! Carlo Artieri 2005
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The GA hired her away from the Hongcouver aquarium.
Starfish 1999
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On impulse, he rang up a friend in SeaTac — "Jess, catch this code for me, will you?" — and squirted the recognition sequence Hongcouver had just sent.
Starfish 1999
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"This is the scheduling subroutine, DI-43, Hongcouver office."
Starfish 1999
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Of course, the same couldn't be said for much of Hongcouver or SeaTac or Victoria.
Starfish 1999
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"If you go back to the 1980s, and the worry about Hongcouver, and all these kinds of things, Vancouver has been through this story before and I think most people think this city is better off now than it was in 1987," said Somerville.
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