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  • noun Plural form of vanload.

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Examples

  • He informed Phil and his listeners that earlier today, someone was bringing in vanloads of non-English-speaking Mexicans with no identification to one of the Nashville early voting locations.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • They just do their best to figure out where we end up each night, and then come to meet us wherever that is with a few vanloads of terrible food and juiceboxes making it even more like summer camp and messages from our family and the kinds of mundane supplies you don't think about the disaster-struck needing until you're one of them: tampons, toothbrushes, blister cream.

    It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011

  • According to Frank Rapier, director of the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, highway patrol officers in hot spots like eastern Tennessee routinely stop vanloads of people returning from Florida with fresh stockpiles of prescription drugs.

    Fight Over a Fix for Florida 'Pill Mills' Arian Campo-Flores 2011

  • In the ancient Khan al-Khalili Bazaar, I saw vanloads of government thugs waiting to attack demonstrators.

    Eric Margolis: The Lessons of Tahrir Square Eric Margolis 2011

  • The trick: Spending three months excavating the thing and tediously sneaking vanloads of dirt past the thousands of workers in the busy urban area above.

    Hail to the Thieves: Famous Heists We Love 2009

  • In the ancient Khan al-Khalili Bazaar, I saw vanloads of government thugs waiting to attack demonstrators.

    Eric Margolis: The Lessons of Tahrir Square Eric Margolis 2011

  • The Alexandria site, one of three that have opened in the United States so far, has drawn vanloads of people from across the eastern United States.

    Southern Sudanese in Washington area, across world prepare to vote on separation Tara Bahrampour 2010

  • The Alexandria site, one of three that have opened in the United States so far, has drawn vanloads of people from across the eastern United States.

    Southern Sudanese in Washington area, across world prepare to vote on separation Tara Bahrampour 2010

  • They took three vanloads of bones, some of them crushed and broken, back to the museum to be reassembled into a skeleton.

    From the archive, 20 July 1983: Dinosaur "find of the century" 2010

  • I'd heard they'd hit a rough patch -- Marc losing hours at work and Marcy pulling double-shifts at the hospital to make all the ends meet -- but I never once imagined that the intermittent vanloads of stuff leaving the house these last few weeks signified any more than just your standard spring cleaning.

    Esther J. Cepeda: Another Midnight Run: Foreclosure Crisis Hits Close to (my) Home 2009

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