da

plural das

1. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlandFather.

   I was twelve when the das started killing themselves all around me

   2025, CMAT, “Euro-Country”

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   “Dear, but you're like your grandmother!” she continued, patting the little girl's head. “Many a penny's worth I sold to your da, when he was weer than you are.”

   1924, Louis Joseph Walsh, “Yellow Man”, in Twilight Reveries, M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd., pages 44–45

   Oh where is yer da son? The man said it to me and was grumpy. Is yer da here?

   2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 55

   Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins.

   2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 48

   Synonyms: pa, Pa, daddy

1. RussianismslanguncountableYes; an affirmative response.

1. RussianismslangYes.

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of the.

   Da Bears

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   Da New York Times

   "So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!" He seized the girl's wrist. "No, no, you don't run. Hey! Where is-a da cop?"

   1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 11

   They are both holding onto their caps in the stiff breeze, and Zang is shouting, "Where is da main hotel going to be?"

   2012, Jeffrey Arnold, Nobody's Laughing, page 157

1. A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.

   You know that tune that goes "da da da di-dum di-dum"?

plural DAs · plural DA's

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of district attorney.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of duck's arse (“type of haircut”).

   1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Went to a new haircutters, told him I wanted a DA and sideburns, and that "your ultimate goal is to make me look like a boy".

3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Doctor of Arts.
4. InternetabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of domain administration.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of dairy association.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebiochemistryInitialism of dopamine.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablechemistryInitialism of domoic acid.
8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableanatomyInitialism of descending aorta.
9. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableanatomyInitialism of ductus arteriosus.
10. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of domain authority.
11. UKabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of devolved administration.
12. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of direct action.
13. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablerhythmic gymnasticsInitialism of difficulty of apparatus.

1. USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Department of the Army.
2. PhilippinesabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Department of Agriculture.
3. South AfricaabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Democratic Alliance.

   Once all the votes are counted, if the ANC remains below 50% it will be forced to enter a coalition with one or more parties. Depending on how low its support dips, it may need to form a deal with one of the larger opposition parties such as the DA or EFF to remain in power.

   2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN

4. rail transportThe station code of Dhaka railway station in Bangladesh.
5. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of doomsday argument.

1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparablegovernmentInitialism of double action.

1. Jehovah's WitnessesabbreviationAbbreviation of disassociate.

1. A great serpent in the mythology of Dahomey.