Meanings
dat1
- IrelandMulticultural London Englishdialectalhumorousnonstandardpronunciation spellingAfrican-American Vernacular; foreign accents; African-American Vernacular; foreign accentsPronunciation spelling of that.
Pidgin is a combination of expressions and phrases that are recognizable to those who speak it. To non-Pidgin speakers, it may sound like slang. For example, “dat” means that and “fadda” means father or dad.
2015 November 12, Bu Kerry Chan Laddaran, “Pidgin English now an official language of Hawaii”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 May 2019
- IrelandMulticultural London Englishdialectalhumorousnonstandardpronunciation spellingAfrican-American Vernacular; foreign accents; African-American Vernacular; foreign accentsPronunciation spelling of that.
Dey vanished...but it wasn't too long ago dat dey did. Dey oughta still be nearby.
2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport
- IrelandMulticultural London Englishdialectalhumorousnonstandardpronunciation spellingAfrican-American Vernacular; foreign accents; African-American Vernacular; foreign accentsPronunciation spelling of that.
Whadda I do? Dis an' dat.
- IrelandMulticultural London Englishdialectalhumorousnonstandardnot comparablepronunciation spellingAfrican-American Vernacular; foreign accents; African-American Vernacular; foreign accentsPronunciation spelling of that.
DAT2
plural DATs · alternative D.A.T. · alternative D. A. T.
- CanadaUSabbreviationacronymAcronym of Dental Admission Test.
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of digital-asset treasury company
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Pronuctiation spelling of that, representing dialects with th-stopping. Compare Dutch dat, Low German dat, and German das.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
dat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dat
“dat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dat. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dat,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dat.
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