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storrowed
What does storrowed mean?
Getting your truck or rental moving van decapitated by one of the absurdly low overpasses on Boston's Storrow Drive. Happens like clockwork every September 1st — Allston Christmas — when half the city's students move in and at least one of them ignores the seventeen warning signs. The whole city watches the news that night for the annual carnage.
"Bro rented a Penske, hopped on Storrow, and got storrowed before he even hit BU."
Origin
Named after Storrow Drive, the riverside parkway with bridges as low as 10 feet — banned to trucks since the 1950s but still getting them yearly.
Frequently asked questions
What does storrowed mean?
Storrowed is when a too-tall truck, like a U-Haul, gets its roof peeled off by a low bridge on Boston's Storrow Drive.
How do you use storrowed in a sentence?
Some poor student got storrowed on move-in day and left the truck's roof behind.
Where does storrowed come from?
It's named after Storrow Drive in Boston, a parkway famous for its low bridges that repeatedly shear the tops off oversized rental trucks.
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