Meanings
verb’ad
- UKdialectalslangApheretic form of had.
“’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown]^([sic]) for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.”
1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, pages 214–215
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APA
'ad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'ad
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“'ad.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'ad. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “'ad,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'ad.
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