Kits

Clipping of Kitsilano.

Kits (uncountable)

1. (informal) The Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver.
   • 1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver, 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, 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, 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.