DOA

DOA

dead on arrival.
Also, D.O.A.
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World English Dictionary
DOA
 
—abbreviation for
dead on arrival

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Etymonline
Word Origin & History

doa
also d.o.a., 1929, police slang abbreviation of dead on arrival.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary

DOA abbr.

  1. dead on admission

  2. dead on arrival

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary

DOA definition


  1. mod.
    dead on arrival. (Hospitals. Initialism.) : The kid was DOA, and there was nothing anybody could do.
  2. n.
    a person who is dead on arrival at a hospital. : They brought in two DOAs Saturday night.
  3. n.
    phencyclidine (PCP). (Because it is deadly.) : Stay away from DOA. There's a good reason why it's called that.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary

DOA definition

jargon
Dead on arrival. A piece of hardware that has never worked.
(2000-12-19)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
DOA

  1. dead on arrival

  2. Department of Agriculture

The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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