DOA

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.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alasdair	['æləsdə]
AsbjÖRn	-	Swedish
Piety	PIE-ə-tee	English (Rare)
Keto	-	Georgian
Odin	O-din	Norse Mythology, English (Modern)
Alexandra	al-əg-ZAN-drə (English), ah-lek-SAHN-drah (German, Romanian, Spanish, Italian), ah-lək-SAHN-drah (Dutch), ə-lə-SHAN-drə (Portuguese), ə-lə-SHAN-drə (Brazilian Portuguese)	English, German, Dutch, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian,