Definition of "van"

Designed to be fully mobile and self-contained, the complete equipment includes an air-conditioned van containing all necessary electronic gear and a flat bed trailer in which missiles, jet engines and other large assemblies may be cleaned.

1959, Western Aerospace, volume 39, page 46

I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.

1966, United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

[They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.

1999, Bonnie Bryant, Changing Leads, page 53

One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us got vanned so he can keep the network up. What he did certainly wasn't the plan." (Getting "vanned" refers to getting picked up by the police.)

2011, The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded‎

He later told CW that he had been "v&" or "vanned" by the police, and he expressed surprise that the police showed him detailed transcripts of his conversations.

2012, FBI names, arrests Anon who infiltrated its secret conference call‎

But not before someone supposedly forwarded all the information onto the FBI. In a last-ditch effort to avoid getting "vanned," Naratto tried to put the memie back in the bottle

2013, Redditor Confesses to Murder with Meme, Gets Doxed by Other Redditors, Deletes His Account and Disappears‎

The hacker says he thinks he is about to be v&, or “vanned,” meaning being raided by law enforcement, sometime soon.

2015 13-year-old credited with hacking CIA director’s AOL account gives bizarre, possibly final interview

On Wednesday night, Motherboard spoke to the teenager accused of being Cracka. "I got fucking v&," he told Motherboard, using "v&," the slang for "vanned," or getting arrested. (At this point, the arrest had not been made public.)

2016, Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.'‎

Commander X: Yep, so now you all know how I got vanned. And you just met the snitch who did it to me.

2017, Dark Ops: An Anonymous Story‎, page 8

Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve

1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎, book 5, lines 588–590

Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster […]

1698, Ned Ward, The London Spy

As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]

We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

Bhīṣma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Karṇa, clad in armour, stand in the van. And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”

1965, “Virāṭa Parva”, in Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, transl., The Mahābhārata, book 4, translation of original in Sanskrit, section 33, page 84

So Satan fell; and ſtrait a fiery Globe / Of Angels on full ſail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy Vans receiv'd him ſoft […]

1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], pages 108–109, lines 578–580

He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; / His vans no longer could his flight sustain.

1717, John Dryden, Ovid's Metamorphoses, book XII

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly / But merely vans to beat the air […]

1930, T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday