Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

gun it up Yale

English answer:

drive hard and fast up Yale Boulevard

Added to glossary by William [Bill] Gray
Jan 20, 2007 13:14
17 yrs ago
English term

gun it up Yale

English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
the man is trying to get into the campus of the UNM with his truck, he's drunk, but in a hurry, while there's the crowd of the spring fiesta in the campus
the road that leads into the campus is blocked by the police and, "the only way to get in was to gun it up Yale."

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+17
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drive hard and fast up Yale Boulevard

Yale Blv. is one of the ways to enter the University of New Mexico.
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agree Alexander Demyanov : You type hard and fast
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Thank you, Alexander. I take that as a complement!! :-), AND a map for the gentleman, to boot!
agree Paula Vaz-Carreiro
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agree David Hollywood
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agree Will Matter
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agree Jack Doughty
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agree Richard Jenkins
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agree Can Altinbay
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agree RHELLER : yes, gun (a car) is to rev a car - to really step on the gas
2 hrs
Thanks, Rita! Something all male drivers have done at least once!
agree Ken Cox : absolutely -- Yale is one of the main streets of Albuquerque
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agree Vocabulum (X) : :)
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agree Vicky Papaprodromou
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agree Roman Bardachev
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agree ErichEko ⟹⭐ : Great ref!
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agree AhmedAMS
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go on/via Yale Blvd

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Peer comment(s):

agree AhmedAMS
9 hrs
Thanks, Ahmed.
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