nada, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nada n.

[synon. Sp.]

(US) nothing.

1850		L.W. Garrard Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail 162: Me no want nada.
1914		in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dict. (1998).
1933		E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing 23: It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too [...] He knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name [OED].
1953		W. Brown Run, Chico, Run (1959) 32: ‘What goes on here, Loco?’ [...] ‘Nada – nothing.’.
1967		P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 47: [chapter title] If you ain’t got heart, you ain’t got nada.
1978		A. Maupin Tales of the City (1984) 22: ‘Nothing happened?’ ‘Nada. Zilch.’.
1986		C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 129: All this work and what do we have to show for it? Nada.
1993		A. Rodriguez Spidertown (1994) 67: A kid goes home and sees his pop working fifty hours a week to come home with nada while the kid makes more money on the street on his own working less.
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 113: A couple of ese fish are pulled out of the houses for questioning. They saw nada and heard less.
2010		L. Berney Gutshot Straight [ebook] ‘Thanks for nada’.
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 295/1: nada none.
2021		Central Cee ‘The Bag’ 🎵 On the ’net, they chat, in the flesh, they don’t, they won’t say nada.

for nada

(US) in no way, impossible.

2010

A. Steinberg Running the Books 82: A bitch like me can’t be stuck on chuck, the boss is lost, for nada.

nada to vada in the larder (n.)

(Polari) a small penis.

2019

P. Baker Fabulosa 295/1: nada to vada in the larder a small penis.