preposition Street Slang

ova by

· preposition · nola

New Orleans-ese for 'at' or 'to' a place, usually someone's house.

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Pure Yat. In New Orleans you don't go 'to' your mamma's, you go 'ova by' her house. It collapses 'over by' into one word and stands in for 'at' or 'to' depending on the sentence. A dead giveaway you grew up below I-10.

“I'm gonna be ova by my cousin's for the second line.”
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ova by In A Sentence

I'm gonna be ova by my cousin's for the second line.

Origin & Usage

Yat dialect of New Orleans, heavily shaped by 19th-century Irish, German and Italian immigrant speech patterns in the Ninth Ward and Irish Channel.

Variants over by
Tags #nola#yat#dialect#south

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