D noun 13exclamation 1adjective 2adverb 1forms 7 noun13 •(US, Canada) A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C. •(US) Abbreviation of Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.“I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday. — 2021 •Abbreviation of defense. •(slang, euphemistic) Clipping of dick (“penis”)She wants the D! •Abbreviation of drive, the setting of an automatic transmission. •The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off. •The penalty arc on a football pitch.23 min: Fee gets overly intricate near his own D, and gifts the ball to Eze, who attempts a curler towards the top-left corner but gets it all wrong. — 2025 •The penalty arc on a hockey field. •Abbreviation of data. •Abbreviation of Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue. •Initialism of difficulty. •Canonical decomposition •Abbreviation of duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association. exclamation1 •(euphemistic) Damn.CAPTAIN. I never use a big, big D— ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. No, never! ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. Hardly ever! ALL. Hardly ever swears a big, big D— — 1879 adjective2 •Abbreviation of dimensional. •Abbreviation of divorced. adverb1 •Abbreviation of down (direction). formsD's · Ds · D♭s · D♯s · d%s · d's · ds