To: MinorityRepublican; All
Hey off topic but asking because this is a military thread per se...
Anyone ever hear the abbr/acronym DDMow ?? Closest I could find out about it. it was a Vietnam era term but never found its meaning.
11 posted on
03/09/2023 7:13:55 PM PST by
sit-rep
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To: sit-rep
Di di (mau) (“dee-dee (maow)”): Vietnamese for “go away (fast) or “haul ass”
19 posted on
03/09/2023 7:32:21 PM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
To: sit-rep
You mean "di di mau", literally "go go quickly”, depending on the situation, "get the hell out of here", "get lost", or "[BLEEP] off".
I feel old. The last I heard that phrase was on A-Team reruns 30 years ago.
20 posted on
03/09/2023 7:33:27 PM PST by
Widget Jr
( 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 - No CCCP 2.0 )
To: sit-rep
didi mau
slang Vietnamese for “go quickly”
didi
slang from the Vietnamese word di, meaning “to leave” or “to go”
21 posted on
03/09/2023 7:33:57 PM PST by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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