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LA
Abbreviation
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Louisiana, a state of the United States of America.
I live in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic, a member state of the United Nations.
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Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
LA
Initialism
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Los Angeles, a city in the state of California in the United States.
We went to LA for the summer.
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Lead arsenate, a pesticide introduced in the United States in 1892, mostly replaced by DDT in the late 1940s, and banned in 1988.
Sur
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noun
a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
dun
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noun
horse of a dull brownish grey color
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adjective
of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
the dun and dreary prairie
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verb
cure by salting
dun codfish
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verb
persistently ask for overdue payment
The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone
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noun
a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
she wore dun
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verb
make a dun color
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verb
(= torment)
treat cruelly
The children tormented the stuttering teacher