Well they started off being four wheel drive trucks with perminate back shells on. So they were both a truck and an off road vehicle and could seat more passengers. Now everyone calls everything an suv, even if it does not have four wheel drive. I think we should start calling them by there real name like, rodeo, jeep, 4 runner, tahoe etc...
by dave carl smith August 5, 2005
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A vehicle that when driven is comprable to drunk driving. In other words, the offending driver is likely to walk away without a scratch, while the victim is usually just fucked.
I got hit by an SUV, but it's ok, because I got a million bucks. And all I had to do was break my neck!
by combat_rock November 29, 2003
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1. A practical vehicle if you live in rural Michigan and actually have a need for 4 wheel drive.

2. An nauseatingly irresponsible vehicle if you live in Miami and drive it solely because noone going to tell you that you can't.

Regardless, there is no reason that auto manufacturers shouldn't be required to increase the fuel efficiency of these beasts.
If you drive an SUV and bitch about gas prices, you are a fucking asshole and might even be our current president.
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"Hey was that a jogger that killed all those white grannies?"
"No--just an SUV."
by Louis XXV January 3, 2022
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A type of vehicle that mostly arrogant people like to drive, especially when they feel that they have to be ‘above everyone else’ on the road, both literally and figuratively.
Damn the jerk in that bloody SUV in front of me, I can’t see anything else up ahead in this traffic!.
by Space Demon-69M March 13, 2019
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abbrev: Soccermoms United in Vacuousness
"Our boys are dying in some desert somewhere for these SUV's"
by jethro January 16, 2004
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