Twa

name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An airliner of Trans World Airlines.

    "1956 "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (Lyrics) - Chuck Berry Flying across the desert in a TWA, / I saw a woman walking across the sand / She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay. / To get a brown-eyed handsome man"

  2. 2
    Any of several pygmy tribes of sub-Saharan Africa, or a member of one of those tribes. plural, plural-only
  3. 3
    Initialism of teeny-weeny afro (“a short afro hairstyle”). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang
  4. 4
    Initialism of typical white asshole. abbreviation, alt-of, ethnic, initialism, offensive, slang, slur, vulgar
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Trans World Airlines. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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"1956 "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (Lyrics) - Chuck Berry Flying across the desert in a TWA, / I saw a woman walking across the sand / She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay. / To get a brown-eyed handsome man"

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