Citations:Kits

Proper noun: "(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.
 * 2000, Shawn Blore, Vancouver: Secrets of the City, unknown page:
 * It was while living in Kits that the American-born author introduced the world to his vision of a gritty post-industrial future,
 * 2004, Tim Jepson, The Rough Guide to Vancouver, page 147:
 * Granville Island is an obvious location - but is busy at weekends, as are restaurants and cafés in Kits and Stanley Park.
 * 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”.
 * 2007, Tom Wayman, Boundary Country, page 259:
 * The guy who spoke was from a house in Kits that is a branch of this Zen monastery in Washington State.
 * 2010, George Fetherling, Jericho, page 36:
 * You can't turn into the next aisle at Capers, the one in Kits, without running into them personally inspecting each eggplant for the right degree of purpleness.
 * 2010, Pang Guek-Cheng, Culture Shock! Vancouver, page 90:
 * West Point Grey with the park-like surrounds of the University of British Columbia, the beautiful beaches of English Bay and the interesting Kits next door, has the unmistakeable air of an upmarket community.
 * 2011, John Lee, Drinking Vancouver: 100+ Great Bars in the City and Beyond, unnumbered page:
 * Mixing partying UBC students and thirtysomething blue-collar regulars (yes, there are people with real jobs in Kits), it's a cave-like, windowless old boozer where you'll only see the light of day if you sit on the tiny patio or near the entrance.
 * 2011, Kay Stewart, Sitting Lady Sutra, page 118:
 * Antoinette didn't really want to leave our funky house in Kits, or her friends, or her job managing one of those little boutiques along Broadway.
 * 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.
 * 2018, Timothy Taylor, "Saturna Island", in Vancouver Noir (ed. Sam Wiebe), unnumbered page:
 * Harris was holding a fresh beer to his face in his crappy apartment in Kits.
 * 2019, Robert P. French, Three, unnumbered page:
 * “I checked the city property records and found out that Mr. Dale Summers owns a townhouse in Kits with an assessed value of a cool two point two million dollars.
 * 2019, R. M. Greenaway, Flights and Falls, page 322:
 * “So, what happened is Patrick wanted to go to this other house party in Kits with old friends.
 * 2019, Tu Ji Fun, The Race Is Not to the Swift, page 12:
 * His grandmother, the one who gave him the Leafs sweater, last visited Vancouver five years ago, 2007, before Daphne was born, when Sam was still a baby, when they were still renting in Kits.