Fall Reeve

alternative Fall Reev

1. informalNickname for Fall River: a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

   > Tangentially, I don't know anything about the derivation of "hoagie." > Anyone? I'd ask Emeril. He's from Fall Reeve.

   2000 June 2, tejas, “The JaneSoc of Snod”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet)

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   My mother bake the massa sovadas, the sweetbreads. Much vinho tinto, some aguardente that maka the old folks have dreams. The band, she come from Fall Reeve; the young folks, they danca.

   1956, David Patten, Three Sides to the Sea: Memories of a Scunnet Childhood, Rinehart, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68

   They are not illegal,they are not illegal? (I guess they're like the Rhode Islanders who come to work in Connecticut from [Fall Reeve] and [Proavidence] LOL).

   2002 May 27, Skeets, “Transcript Vicente Fox on Hannity and Colmes”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet)

   After Hurricane Gloria, we had no well water (no pump running, or anything else) for nearly a week. We bought bottled water to drink, and paid the day rate at a hotel in Fall Reeve to take showers.

   2003 August 15, Anne, “Did any of y'all lose power today?”, in alt.rhode_island (Usenet)

   I useta get that reaction when we lived in Little Compton and I was working here in Providence. Down there on the peninsula, going all the way to Fall Reeve to buy some Bronhard's kielbasa was the big thrill. ;-)

   2004 August 4, A, “alt.rhode-island does milk.”, in alt.rhode_island (Usenet)

   It had been years since I had driven around ‘Fall Reev’ as it's known. Honestly, I avoided Fall River like the plague.

   2012 November 6, Hollie Delaney, Lessons: Author's Cut, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 71