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
Tzafrir	-	Hebrew
Kamryn	KAM-rin	English (Modern)
Konstantin	KAWN-stahn-teen (German), kahn-stahn-TEEN (Russian)	German, Hungarian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Hayate	hah-yah-te	Japanese
Hyledd	-	Welsh
Africa (2)	-	Irish, Scottish