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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.
chasse
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noun
(ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading
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verb
perform a chasse step, in ballet
Au
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noun
(= gold)
a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
AU
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noun
(= Astronomical Unit)
a unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
snark
noun
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Snide remarks.
snark
verb
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To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
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(obsolete) To snort.
snark
noun
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(mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
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(particle) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
Snark
properNoun
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A fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.
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fantastical monster