DIY
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DIY
- Do It Yourself
- 1990, David Cohen, Being a Man[1]:
- According to market research, many men list DIY as one of their main hobbies.
- 1990, David Cohen, Being a Man[1]:
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to 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?
- 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108,
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[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of diy
- yid