d4

plural d4s · alternative D4

1. diceA die with four sides.

   The d4 can be used to generate 25% incremental probabilities, random numbers from 1 to 4, with +1 it generates a linear 2-5, etc.

   1979, Gary Gygax, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide, Lake Geneva, WI: TSR Games, page 10

1. IrelandmetonymicallyThe upper middle class of Dublin or Ireland as a whole.

   The show divided public opinion on the grounds that it presented a "D4" lifestyle which was not representative of life outside of Dublin.

   2011, “Fade Street Reality Stars”, in RTÉ Archives

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   Shane knew the suspicion was due to his accent, and the tracksuit he'd worn on the first day. Skanger, he thought to himself, that's what she thinks of me. Or what's the other word the culchies use? Scrote. Then the D4 heads: knacker, scobe. The Old Bill: scumbag.

   2015 September 30, Frankie Gaffney, Dublin Seven, Liberties Press, →ISBN

2. broadlyA version of Advanced Dublin English, a high prestige dialect of Dublin and Ireland, derived from the dialect of South Dublin, and peaking in popularity in the 1990s and 2000s.

   Authors of newspaper editorials tied the use of D4 to what they imagined was the rejection of Irish identity.

   2021 October 19, Serena Nanda, Richard L. Warms, Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, SAGE Publications, →ISBN

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   According to Hickey, while discarding unpopular elements of D4 and Dortspeak, this new pronunciation form, however, retained a number of features of its predecessors such as the raising of non-local back vowels and the retraction of /ai/ in differentiating itself from local speech forms.

   2019 October 28, Joan O'Sullivan, Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change: Language Variety and Ideology in Advertising, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1982

   Synonyms: Dartspeak, Dortspeak

3. IrelandderogatorymetonymicallyoftenThe fandom of Leinster Rugby, especially when seen as snobbish, insular and exerting undue influence on the Irish Rugby Football Union nationally.

   I hate this 'D4 slur' towards a game we have always been good at but are better at now than ever.

   2023 October 1, Tony Ward, “I hate the ‘D4 slur’ towards rugby – I was brought up a long way from privilege”, in Irish Independent

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   Anyone who has been along to the RDS in the past 8 years will know Leinster have very successfully discarded it old D4 image.

   2013 March 14, “The 8 signs you're a Leinster Rugby fan”, in The 42

   I don’t recall any province conceding more than 100 points/15 tries in two weeks and if people are saying that Irish rugby is in good health, perhaps they should have a close look at what is happening outside the D4 bubble.

   2024 December 20, David Corkery, “Irish rugby fans must look outside 'D4 bubble' and at bigger picture”, in Cork Echo

plural D4s

1. Alternative letter-case form of d4.
2. abbreviationAbbreviation of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane.