dev
[dev]Informal.
- a software developer: a game dev; a web dev.
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- software development: The programmers and animators on the dev team worked late into the night.
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Origin of dev
by shortening
dev.
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Examples from the Web for dev
Contemporary Examples of dev
Dev is Indian, so they (obviously) go to an Indian restaurant.
Dev Patel loitered around another corridor, waiting for his plugged-in phone to charge.
Historical Examples of dev
Took all their gibes and "dev'ling" quietly, and for the most part silently.
"Run To Seed"Thomas Nelson Page
"As giddy as the dev—that is, as giddy as a goose," said Jonathan.
Sheppard Lee, Vol. II (of 2)Robert Montgomery Bird
And if I take a drop more'n usual it plays the dev—it goes to my head.
Friendship and FollyMaria Louise Pool
They should always be pronounced gard'n and oft'n, ev'l and dev'l.
ConversationAndrew P. Peabody
What the dev—And you're actually asking me to tell her so too?
The MilitantsMary Raymond Shipman Andrews