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  • verb To leave quickly, hurry away.

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Examples

  • #46 – Yes, but I am studying tieng viet, and the proper way to say go, quick go, is not di di mau, but di mau di.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 29, 2007 2007

  • They included chau, sin loi, di di mau, ti ti, chieu hoi and dau!

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • …the proper way to say go, quick go, is not di di mau, but di mau di.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 29, 2007 2007

  • Chau meant hello, as in chau ba (Hello, Mrs.), sin loi meant sorry (as in sorry ’bout that), di di mau meant get out of here, ti ti meant just a little bit (it was itself a corruption of a French phrase from an earlier war).

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

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