D.A.

n

British

1.

a hairstyle in which the hair is scraped back and greased into a curl on the nape of the neck. It is an abbreviation of duck's arse. The style was popular among teddy boys in the 1950s and, to a lesser extent, with the rockers of the early 1960s.

2.

drug addict. An abbreviation used, generally facetiously, by drug users themselves in the mid- and late 1960s.