DIY
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DIY (usually uncountable, plural DIYs)
- Initialism of do it yourself.
- 1990, David Cohen, Being a Man[1]:
- According to market research, many men list DIY as one of their main hobbies.
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do it yourself — see also do it yourself
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DIY (third-person singular simple present DIYs, present participle DIYing or DIY-ing, simple past and past participle DIYed)
- To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.
- 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108,
- Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question: If they couldn't DIY, can you?
- 2022 March 21, Bill Chappell, “SWIFT, hedgehog, MiG: Here's a guide to the terms of war in Ukraine”, in SPECIAL SERIES: Ukraine invasion — explained[2], NPR, retrieved 2022-03-21:
- Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.
- 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108,
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DIY (comparative more DIY, superlative most DIY)
- Do-it-yourself.
- Do you know where I could find a DIY pipe repair kit?
- 2008, Sami Finne, Hanna Sivonen, chapter 4, in The Retail Value Chain: How to Gain Competitive Advantage through Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Strategies, page 154:
- The product knowledge of salespeople is very high, which enables them to serve the demanding customer groups such as professional painters and builders, in addition to the usual DIY consumers.
- 2016, Michael Croland, Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk: Jews and Punk[3]:
- That is more DIY, more punk, anyway.
- 2021 April 19, “Thai monk who beheaded himself with guillotine to reach nirvana may have been misguided: Buddhist authority”, in Coconuts Bangkok[4], Bangkok: Coconuts, retrieved 2021-04-20:
- A temple abbot who used a DIY guillotine to behead himself in hope of attaining enlightenment might have misinterpreted some things along the way, Thailand’s religious authorities said yesterday.
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of or pertaining to do it yourself
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- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: di1 aai1 waai1
- Yale: dī āai wāai
- Cantonese Pinyin: di1 aai1 waai1
- Guangdong Romanization: di1 ai1 wai1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tiː⁵⁵ aːi̯⁵⁵ waːi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
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DIY (Taiwanese Mandarin, Hong Kong Cantonese)
- to DIY; to do it yourself
- (euphemistic) to masturbate
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DIY
- Initialism of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta.
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