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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.
chute
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noun
sloping channel through which things can descend
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noun
(= parachute)
rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
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verb
(= parachute, jump)
jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
noir
adjective
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(film, TV) Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre
noir
noun
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(film, and, TV, uncountable) Film noir.
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(film, and, TV, countable) A production in the style of film noir.