U.S. of A.

A form of United States of America — A country located primarily in North America, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and consisting of fifty states (including Alaska and Hawaii) and the District of Columbia, while asserting sovereignty over several territories; short form United States; abbreviation USA. Capital: Washington, D.C.. Largest city: New York City.

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proper nounthe U.S. of A.

alternative US of A

  1. abbreviationhumorousinformalAbbreviation of United States of America.

    We're making the U.S. of A. as strong as she ought to be.

    2005, Robert Ludlam, The Ambler Warning, page 190
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    The work that many of us have done for many years in supporting the Vietnamese, the Chilean Resistance, Sovereignty for Panama, as well as trying to build a leftist movement in the good old U. S. of A.

    1976 February 14, Michael Bumblebee, “Gay Folks and The 'Hard Times'”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 3

    News of my death would surely make the headlines in all the big newspapers back home in the US of A.

    1985, Barbara Savage, Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure

    Elvis Presley's genius was first captured by Sam Phillips in Sun Studios, all the way down in Memphis, in the southern states of the US of A, in 1956.

    2003, Propaganda: 20 years of the official U2 Magazine, page 130
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