U.S. of A.

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the U.S. of A.

  1. (humorous, informal) Abbreviation of United States of America.
    • 1976 February 14, Michael Bumblebee, “Gay Folks and The 'Hard Times'”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 3:
      The work that many of us have done for many years in supporting the Vietnamese, the Chilean Resistance, Sovereignty for Panama, as well as trying to build a leftist movement in the good old U. S. of A.
    • 1985, Barbara Savage, Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure:
      News of my death would surely make the headlines in all the big newspapers back home in the US of A.
    • 2003, Propaganda: 20 years of the official U2 Magazine, page 130:
      Elvis Presley's genius was first captured by Sam Phillips in Sun Studios, all the way down in Memphis, in the southern states of the US of A, in 1956.
    • 2005, Robert Ludlam, The Ambler Warning, page 190:
      We're making the U.S. of A. as strong as she ought to be.
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