AA
A member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Adjective
- Initialism of anti-aircraft or anti-air.
- Initialism of air-to-air.
- Initialism of atlantoaxial.
- AA joint; AA instability
- Initialism of arterioarterial.
- AA anastomosis
- Initialism of Afro-Asiatic.
- Initialism of Austroasiatic.
Origin
Abbreviations.
Proper noun
- Initialism of Alcoholics Anonymous: a self-supporting organization of alcoholic people.
- She said, “I'm an alcoholic, just like my mother was. It's a struggle, but I haven't had a drink in a while.” That was something she hadn't meant to say, something she had never said outside of an AA meeting. But, after...
- Initialism of Academy Awards: a recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Like a true AA follower (as in Academy Awards, not 12 steps), I never cared for Oscar parties. Somebody always talked through the songs or Vanessa Redgrave's speech or the costume parade, in which elegant runway models...
- Initialism of Addicts Anonymous.
- Initialism of Al Ain.
- Initialism of American Airlines: a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.
- Alas, I fear, Netflix will soon break my heart. And it's an American icon that is warning me: American Airlines (AA). ¶ You see, middlemen are dying. Sabre, the former AA subsidiary that is now an independent global...
- Initialism of Aerolíneas Argentinas.
- Initialism of Ansett Australia or Ansett Airways.
- Initialism of Air Almanac, a publication.
- Initialism of American Anthropologist: the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, founded in 1888.
- Initialism of Acta Astronautica: a scientific journal founded in 1955, covering fields related to the peaceful scientific exploration of space.
- Initialism of Aluminum America, a corporation.
- Initialism of The Aluminum Association: a trade association for the aluminum production, fabrication and recycling industries.
Wikipedia
Noun
- A member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- In a letter to Cohen, written between 1956 and 1961, he reported hearing gossip about his LSD use in AA circles. He reminded Cohen about "the desirability" of omitting his name "when discussing LSD with AAs". Cohen...
- An AA battery (energy-storage device).
- Whether your camera takes AAs or a unique, proprietary battery, you should always have a spare. […] You will not be able to walk into a local supermarket and buy a new one as you can with AAs. - 2005, Rob Sheppard,...
- It’s also tough to keep on top of charging all the batteries needed. The remote takes standard AAs, but the drone has a huge lithium battery that charges with a special wall unit. - 2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian...
- Initialism of affirmative action.
- Some of the rules guiding these nominations are affirmative action (AA)¹ policies intended to increase the influence of and to encourage nomination of women and minorities. […] A review of the extant literature on AA and...
- Initialism of air armament.
- Initialism of air attaché.
- Initialism of aircraft apprentice.
- Initialism of aircraft artificer.
- Initialism of absolute altitude.
- Initialism of anti-aircraft.
- They're setting up an AA battery. That thing'll tear the Dawn apart... We'll wait for you to take the shot. - 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
- Initialism of avenue of approach.
- Initialism of assembly area.
- Initialism of airman apprentice.
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Verb
- Initialism of antialias.
- On the other hand, edge AA in EF2000 didn't make much difference because only the objects were AAed and they made up only a very small percentage of the screen area. - 1999 September 12, Darin Genereux, “Re:...
- Vector images can be considered to have extremely high resolution, so it is possible to AA them. - 2003 June 25, Ilari Liusvaara, “Re: I have a Linux Desktop dream, desktoplinux.com”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):