Cantonese Slang
💡 Tip: [[to hit; a dozen]] to beat, to hit.
Definitions
  1. 1 [[to hit; a dozen]] to beat, to hit.
  2. 2 dáa kéuih lóuh môu 打佢老母 — Beat the bastard! (jyw 1, 21).
  3. 3 dáa báa 打爸 — a useless person; a term of abuse for a boy or man, a "bastard", a "little shit" (gwdl 103, 29).
  4. 4 dáa báa gwái 打爸鬼 — a useless person.
  5. 5 dáa báa jái 打爸仔 — a useless young boy, a kid.
  6. 6 dáa báa jái àa, béi ngóh deih sāp yúhn yāt sāan, gam faai yáuh sàm chìhng kàu néui 打爸仔啦,俾我哋廿一身,叫快有心情揾女? 打爸仔啦,俾我哋卄一身,叫快有心情揾女? — You little shit, you've just been beaten up by us and you're already in the mood to chase girls? (snch 2, 26).
  7. 7 dáa baaih jeung 打敗仗 — [to lose a battle] to fall ill.
  8. 8 dáa (go) baahk gaap jyun 打(個)白鴿轉 — [to circle like a pigeon] to go for a quick walk around the block.
  9. 9 dáa baat jáau 打八爪 — [to do the octopus] to take fingerprints, to take someone's fingerprints (police jargon).
  10. 10 dáa báau 打包 — [to hit wrap] to finish off; to kill; to deal with (since báau 包, in this sense refers to shrouds); to wrap a dead body; to have surplus food wrapped after a meal to take home, to take a "doggie bag" (dyj 60, 16).
  11. 11 dáa báau dāan 打包單 — to guarantee, to promise.
  12. 12 dáa báau 打爆 — to beat up, to destroy (gwdl 38, 9).
  13. 13 dáa báau géi 打爆機 — [to explode machine] to get to the highest level of a video game.
  14. 14 dáa báau yáuh gōng 打爆油缸 — [to explode fuel tank] to fill up the fuel tank.
  15. 15 dáa bāng tauh 打崩頭 — [to hit broken head] to break someone's head.
  16. 16 dáa béng 打餅 — [to hit cake] to be lazy (prison officer jargon, OS).
  17. 17 dáa chaaih 打柴 — a cigarette lighter (OS); to make a special lighter for drug taking (OS); to lose.
  18. 18 máaih yih baak lèhng maaahn gam síu, gēng yāt pòu dáa chaaih aah 買二百幾噚,繁一組打柴啦? 買二百幾蚊,驚一組打柴呀? — You're just betting about two million, are you scared that you'll lose everything on one game? (gwj 24, 68).
  19. 19 dáa chàauh 打是 — to defeat.
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