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nounnounnounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɒk//
  • United States//dɑk//

A doctor.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA doctor.

Etymology

Clipping of doctor.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence.

    [see title]

Etymology

Clipping of document.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA documentary.

    If you think watching a doc about a spelling bee isn't the most entertaining way to spend ninety minutes, think again.

    On the subject of fat men, I was watching a doc about a mountain of flab called Paul last night and Ludo said that he was very proud that the fattest man in the world was English.

    Fire in Paradise mixes the nigh-unbearable tension of docs such as Free Solo and Cartel Land with the sad reportage of An Inconvenient Truth.

    Capturing over a year’s worth of Dion’s life, including “never-before-seen” private moments, the doc will showcase the legendary singer navigating “her journey toward living an open and authentic life amidst illness.”

Etymology

Clipping of documentary.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of doctorateClipping of doctorate.

Etymology

Clipping of doctorate.

Forms

plural
docs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).