"You got a DOA here?" Sullivan asked leaving out the salutations, his eyes going to the ground in front of the patrol car, searching the shadows for the inevitable blanket-covered body. 1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 159:
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A. 1995, “I'll Be There for You”, performed by The Rembrandts:
Mess around, be D.O.A., be on your way / 'Cause it ain't enough time here 1997, “Mo Money Mo Problems”, in Life After Death, performed by The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Ma$e and Diddy:
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of defective on arrival.