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DP

DP

1 7.9
A photo or image someone uses as their profile picture online
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : foto de perfil
  • The agreement also formalized a system for importing contract labor, one based on the DP model.

Examples

  • Way this shakes out is you get me for two DP's, okay?

  • Another star-studded DP battle that should see all the big guns on the field at one time.

    Blog text (1)
  • Just let me be your DP.

  • For those of you old enough in the creative fields, remember the desktop publishing (DP) revolution (blame Steve Jobs).

    Blog text (29)
  • Add in the tough-to-kill MoT DP, and his ability to drop in and kill units with ease, and he becomes yet another great tool.

    Blog text (24)
  • Do you know what it is—a DP?

    Fiction book (2000)
  • DP needs to pull backup for AV 14, but six flamers of Tzeentch will knock three HP off per turn on average too.

    Blog text (24)
  • In the ten years of DP rule, the Turkish government became increasingly repressive and less democratic, supporting entrenched religious scholars and persecuting intellectuals committed to social reform.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Only as recently as 1950, in Turkey's second free elections, did another political organization—the new Democratic Party (DP)—gain control of the government.

    Academic text (1991)
  • I updated my DP on my social media profile to reflect my new haircut.

Synonyms

pic
vsDP
  • Texting
90 6.8

A photo made with a camera or phone

is used specifically as a user's image on social media and messaging apps

Surface Forms

DP singular
DPs plural

Morphology

DP = display + picture (semi-transparent) = D + P

The abbreviation stands for readily knowable words ('display' + 'picture'), but the link from the letters 'DP' to that compound is conventional social-media jargon rather than transparent morphology.

Etymology

The word DP is short for display picture, a 'picture' that 'displays' you on social apps or chat programs. So a DP is the photo or image you use as your profile picture online.