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big d

n. A nickname for the city of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas,%20Texas, Texas, U.S.A.

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Big D

Big D may refer to:

People
  • Don Drysdale, former Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Bigg D, record producer from Miami, Florida
  • Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
  • Daeseung "Teddy" Son, PhD Candidate at Claremont Theological Seminary
Fiction
  • Dudley Dursley, fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels
  • Damn (spelled damme), referred to euphemistically in Gilbert and Sullivan's ''H.M.S. Pinafor'
Music
  • Big D and the Kids Table, third wave ska band established in 1995.
  • "Big D" (song), song in Frank Loesser's 1956 Broadway musical, The Most Happy Fella.
Radio
  • Big D Jamboree, a country music radio show on KRLD
  • Big D and Bubba, a radio show nationally syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks
Places
  • Dallas, Texas, eighth-largest city in the United States
Food
  • Big D (peanuts), British brand of snack foods, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, still produced
See also
  • D (disambiguation)
Big D (song)

"Big D" is a song about Dallas, Texas written by Frank Loesser in 1956 for the musical The Most Happy Fella. It repeatedly spells out the name of Dallas with the refrain: Big D, little A, double L, A, S.

Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews performed "Big D" in 1961, while Burnett was a regular and Andrews a guest star on The Garry Moore Show. The success of this appearance led to the development of a 1962 CBS television special, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, where the pair reprised the song.

Category:1956 songs Category:Songs about Texas Category:Songs from musicals Category:Songs written by Frank Loesser

Big D (peanuts)

Big D is a British brand of peanuts and snack food, introduced in 1967.

Usage examples of "big d".

At night it's easy to tell yourself that it's just another aspect of Seth's autism, really no big deal.