Kits

See also: kits

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Khitan small script.

Symbol

Kits

  1. (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Khitan small script.

English

Etymology

Clipping of Kitsilano.

Proper noun

Kits (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver.
    • 1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver‎[1], page 57:
      Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom.
    • 2006, Tannis Zboroluk, Kitsilano Al Fresco‎[2], page 2:
      So often, as they'd stroll down the pathways and sidewalks in Kits, they'd remark on the essence of the neighbourhood, sighing, “only here”.
    • 2014, Patrick Taylor, Now and in the Hour of Our Death: A Novel of the Irish Troubles‎[3], page 52:
      She'd walked from Kits to Granville Island, intending to take the water-bus across False Creek and walk down Burrard Street to West Georgia.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kits.
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