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Ddt

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Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, compound originally developed as an insecticide. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually

    "After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years."

  2. 2
    a move where a wrestler puts another wrestler into a standing front face lock and then falls backwards, driving the recipient's head into the floor.
  3. 3
    an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 wordnet

Etymology

Various theories; see DDT (professional wrestling).

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