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D and D
adjective- drunk and disorderly UK, 1899
Abbreviated from an official cause of arrest. - In comes a bright bogey [policeman] who knows who she is and nicks her on the spot for being d and d, which she is by this time[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 22, 1956
- Chances were, an old drunk told him, they’d give him two days on the D and D and credit for time served. — Robert Campbell, In La-La Land We Trust, p. 112, 1986
- deaf and dumb US, 1937
Usage is both literal (applied to beggars) and figurative (applied to someone who knows nothing and will say nothing). - — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 139, 1960
- “He went D and D,” Loretta Fischetti said. “Yes, Deaf and Dumb, I said.” — Daniel Pinkwater, Looking for Bobowicz, p. 59, 2004
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