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U.S. of A. en · PROPN

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1. (abbreviation, alt-of, humorous, informal) Abbreviation of United States of America.
   alt of United States of America
   • 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. 2003, Propaganda: 20 years of the official U2 Magazine, page 130:
   • 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. 1976 February 14, Michael Bumblebee, “Gay Folks and The 'Hard Times'”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 3:
   • News of my death would surely make the headlines in all the big newspapers back home in the US of A. 1985, Barbara Savage, Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure:
   • We're making the U.S. of A. as strong as she ought to be. 2005, Robert Ludlam, The Ambler Warning, page 190:

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