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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation oculus dexter (right eye)

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  • I think Dee Dee (who died of a drug o.d. in 2004) was the most fascinating character in the Ramones.

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  • I think Dee Dee (who died of a drug o.d. in 2004) was the most fascinating character in the Ramones.

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  • July 10, 2009 at 4:41 AM when i did my peds rotation we were told that there isn't enough iron in children's vitamins for them to o.d., only if they get into adult vitamins. of course, ymmv.

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  • Like another of your fans, I'm a little anxious about the krill oil since I recently had an o.d. shrimp episode myself.

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  • Why now, of all times, now that he's under suspicion with Elizabeth Smart, did he o.d.?

    CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2002 2002

  • ZAHN: Except for broccoli, which we're supposed to o.d. on.

    CNN Transcript May 14, 2002 2002

  • In addition I stuff in an o.d. shirt (it dried today!) a towel, soap, tooth-brush, shaving things etc., a pair of socks, and my map.

    At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

  • Quite at my leisure I watched the spirited advance of the thin line of o.d. men to storm the enemy's position.

    At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

  • In March o.d. will be either enormously distended with eggs, or large, flabby, and empty, and ov. will be small and brownish, without any large eggs; the ovary gradually recovers its size through the summer.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • The only plane I would fly in any more would have to be o.d. green.

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