dada

da-da · noun

imported

Definitions

1.
An early 20th-century avant-garde art movement that rejected conventional aesthetics and celebrated absurdity, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest.
2.
(informal) A child's word for father.

Synonyms: dadaism

From French dada, meaning "hobby horse" in childish speech, chosen deliberately by the artists for its nonsensical sound.