U.S. of A.

English

Alternative forms

• US of A

Proper noun

the U.S. of A.

1. (dated, informal) The United States of America.
   • 2005, Robert Ludlam, The Ambler Warning, page 190:

     We're making the U.S. of A. as strong as she ought to be.

   • 2003, Propaganda: 20 years of the official U2 Magazine, page 130:

     Elvis Presley's genius was first captured by Sam Phillips in Sun Studios, all the way down in Memphis, in the southern states of the US of A, in 1956.

   • 1985, Barbara Savage, Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure:

     News of my death would surely make the headlines in all the big newspapers back home in the US of A.