DDT

plural DDTs

1. abbreviationuncountableusuallychemistryAbbreviation of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, compound originally developed as an insecticide.

   The use of DDT for disinfectation of louse-infested communities is a primary control measure in epidemic situations.

   2007, Wallace Peters, Geoffrey Pasvol, Atlas of tropical medicine and parasitology, page 22

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   After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.

   2007 January 21, The Associated Press, “Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting”, in The New York Times

plural DDTs

1. governmenta move where a wrestler puts another wrestler into a standing front face lock and then falls backwards, driving the recipient's head into the floor.