Meanings
- USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Drug Enforcement Administration.
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And there were girls pettin' squirrels / And there were squirrels smokin' crack / With an old Navy Seal and the DEA / And a loaded automatic just to blow me all away / With a dog drinkin' liquor from a hole in the sky / And a picture of a pitcher throwin' pitches at a guy / He had a problem with his sister and her 3D cups / And a brother with a shovel just to shake it all up
2001, “The Shame of Life”, in Weird Revolution, performed by Butthole Surfers, Hollywood RecordsWhen Trump announced Chronister as his pick Saturday, the president-elect said in a social media post: “As DEA Administrator, Chad will work with our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to secure the Border, stop the flow of Fentanyl, and other Illegal Drugs, across the Southern Border, and SAVE LIVES.”
2024 December 3, Alejandra Jaramillo and Jack Forrest, “Trump’s pick for DEA administrator withdraws from consideration”, in CNN
plural DEAs
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of diethanolamine.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of docosatetraenoylethanolamide.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounfederal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
French DEA, stups
- DEADrug Enforcement Administration
- stupsDrug Enforcement Administration
- DEAdiethanolamine
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Cite this entry
DEA. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/DEA
“DEA.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/DEA. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “DEA,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/DEA.
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