ad n.1
1. an advertisement.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Advice to Editors of Newspapers 19: Employ a person of address [...] to go through, among the advertising people, to solicit their Ads, to puff your paper [OED]. | |
| Household Words xiii 9: The really interesting ads are in the body of the paper. | |
| Gaslight and Daylight 217: We know that the really interesting ‘ads’ are in the body of the paper. | |
| Hbk of Phrases 95: Ad, abbreviation of advertisement. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Baled Hay 203: I displayed his ad. top of the column. | |
| ‘Not a Bit Like It’ Sporting Times 15 Feb. 1/3: He replied to an ‘ad.’ in the Nuptial Gazette. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Songs They Used to Sing’ in Roderick (1972) 384: She had a saving clause in case the young farmer mislaid the glove before he saw the ad. | |
| ‘A Tempered Wind’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 182: We want our ads. in the biggest city dailies, top of column, next to editorials. | |
| Help Wanted 32: I have answered ‘Help Wanted’ ads for five weeks, since I came out of school. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Ulysses 56: Bald head over the blind. Cute old codger. No use canvassing him for an ad. | |
| Jarnegan (1928) 161: She’ll make Mary Pickford look like a cheap ad. in a Sunday paper. | |
| Haxby’s Circus 307: It’ll be a great ad. for the show. | |
| Mistral Hotel (1951) 131: You turn down a few birth-control ads. every year. | |
| Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 172: Obscure citizens who’d read his modest ad in the morning papers. | |
| Walk on the Wild Side 120: Fort crumpled the want-ads. | |
| Fowlers End (2001) 1: ‘I saw your ad——’ ‘That’s right, ad. Not advertisement.’. | |
| How to Talk Dirty 47: The ads and TV commercials bombard us with new things. | |
| Sun. Times Mag. 7 Oct. 55: If there’s an air crash, we may postpone a BOAC ad for a day. | |
| Skin Tight 27: It’ll make the damn papers . . . Buried back in the truss ads where you belong. | |
| Observer Mag. 12 Sept. 23: This commercial (they weren’t called ads until much later). | |
| Hooky Gear 135: DJ cackle. Followed by a jingle. Ads. If youre thinkin of going skiing this Easter. |
2. (US gay) a graffito offering sexual services, as found on a public lavatory wall.
| Queens’ Vernacular 18: ad graffito, usually on a gay frequented washroom wall, stating the sexual desires of the writer. |