A.c.d.c.
alternating current or direct current.
adjective
(informal) (of a person) bisexual
adj.
electronics abbreviation of alternating current/direct current, by 1898. As slang for “bisexual,” 1959, said to have been in use orally from c.1940; the notion is of working both ways.
alternating current/direct current
bisexual
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