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Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me: 1982 reggae-tinged torch song by Culture Club, written by Boy George, Hay, Craig, and Moss, produced by Steve Levine; UK No. 1 for 3 weeks, US No. 2, from Kissing to Be Clever.

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell?) is Emir Kusturica's 1981 feature debut, written with Abdulah Sidran, set in 1963 Sarajevo, about teenager Dino and the prostitute Dolly Bell; Venice and Pula award winner.

Do You Still Love Me? (album)

Do You Still Love Me? is Ella Mai's third studio album, released February 6, 2026 on 10 Summers/Interscope: 14 songs, 45 minutes, fully produced by Mustard at slowed 80–60 BPM tempos, peaking at UK downloads chart number 66.

Do You Wanna Partner

Do You Wanna Partner is a 2025 Hindi Prime Video comedy-drama, also called a Dharmatic Entertainment web series, starring Tamannaah Bhatia and Diana Penty as friends launching the craft beer brand Jugaaro with a fictitious male partner.

Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Do Your Ears Hang Low? is an American children's action song sung to a short version of "Turkey in the Straw", traced by folklorist Ed Cray to Dixon's 1838 "Zip Coon" and descended from the bawdy soldier parody "Do Your Balls Hang Low?".

DO-160

DO-160, titled Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment, is an RTCA standard, first published in 1975, for environmental testing of civil aircraft equipment.

DO-178C

DO-178C, titled Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification, is the RTCA guidance defining software design assurance objectives for airborne systems, published in 2011 and replacing DO-178B.

DO-254

DO-254, Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware, is a 2000 RTCA guideline for assuring complex custom airborne electronic hardware such as ASICs, PLDs, and FPGAs.

DO-365

DO-365, the RTCA standard Minimum Operational Performance Standards for Detect and Avoid systems, defines how unmanned aircraft detect traffic, alert remote pilots, and remain well clear of other aircraft, first published in 2017.

Do-bayti

Do-bayti is a quatrain of sung folk poetry in Persian dialects, best known across Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan and distinct from the rubāʿī in meter.

Do-calculus

Do-calculus is a system of three inference rules, introduced by Judea Pearl in 1995, that determines whether causal effects can be computed from non-experimental, observational data alone.

Do-it-yourself biology

Do-it-yourself biology (DIYbio, biohacking): biology practiced outside universities, institutes, and companies by amateurs. Founded with DIYbio.org in Boston in 2008; community labs like Genspace; low-cost equipment, self-regulation, and country-specific regulation distinguish it.

Do-Re-Mi

Do-Re-Mi is a 1960 Broadway musical comedy with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, starring Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker.

DO-RE-MI C-S trial

The DO-RE-MI C-S trial is a University of Calgary pilot randomized controlled trial testing whether pasteurized donor milk better preserves the gut microbiome of cesarean-born full-term infants than formula.

DOA: Dead or Alive

DOA: Dead or Alive is a 2006 live-action martial arts film directed by Corey Yuen, adapted from Tecmo's Dead or Alive fighting games, starring Jaime Pressly, Devon Aoki, Holly Valance, and Sarah Carter; it grossed about $7.6 million on a $30 million budget.

Doab

Doab (Persian do-ab, "two waters"; Hindi दोआब) is the South Asian term for land between two confluent rivers, an interfluve. Named examples include Punjab's Sindh Sagar, Chaj, Rechna, Bari and Bist doabs and the Ganga-Yamuna Doab.

Doab taxation and famine

Doab taxation and famine (دوآبہ کی ٹیکس اور قحط) was Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq's sharp land-tax increase on the Ganga-Yamuna Doab, which caused rebellion and famine.

Đoàn Phú Tứ

Đoàn Phú Tứ (1910–1989) was a Vietnamese playwright, poet, and translator of the pre-war era, best known for the plays Ngã ba and Thằng cuội ngồi gốc cây đa.

Doan Thi Diem

Doan Thi Diem, pen name Hong Ha Nu Si, was an 18th-century Vietnamese poet and teacher who operated a school during the Le Trung hung period.

Doanus Vallis

Doanus Vallis is a 574-km-long valley at about 63°S on Mars, IAU-named in 1985 after a Ptolemaic river (possibly the Mekong). It drained south polar meltwater into the Argyre basin and supplied its paleolakes.

DOAP

DOAP (Description of a Project) is an RDF vocabulary created by Edd Dumbill in 2004 for describing free and open source software projects in machine-readable form.

Dobaara: See Your Evil

Dobaara: See Your Evil is a 2017 Hindi horror film by Prawaal Raman, an official adaptation of Oculus (2013), starring real-life siblings Huma Qureshi and Saqib Saleem investigating a haunted mirror tied to their parents' murder; it flopped, earning ₹1.92 crore in India.

Dobaaraa

Dobaaraa (दोबारा) is a 2022 Hindi-language sci-fi mystery thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap, starring Taapsee Pannu, adapted from the Spanish film Mirage, released 19 August 2022 and later on Netflix.

Dobama Asiayone

The Dobama Asiayone, or We Burmans Association, was a Burmese nationalist organization founded in Rangoon in 1930 that demanded independence from British rule and incubated Aung San and U Nu.

Dobbm

Dobbm, also called Tappen, is an Austrian point-trick card game from the Stubai valley: 4 or 5 players, 36 Tell cards, hearts permanently trump, declarer versus three defenders, 120 card points, payments based on the difference from 60.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), the Supreme Court decision holding no constitutional right to abortion, overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and returning abortion regulation to the states under rational-basis review.

Dobermann

Dobermann (Doberman Pinscher) is a German working and guard dog breed created in the 1870s by tax collector Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann of Apolda, Thuringia; black or brown with rust markings, 68–72 cm males, prone to dilated cardiomyopathy and von Willebrand's disease.

Doberos

Doberos (Doberes, Doberians): ancient Paeonian town and tribe first attested in Thucydides at Sitalces' 429 BC campaign; Herodotus places the Doberes near Lake Prasias; site uncertain, with Dojran and Bansko proposed.

Dobesilic acid

Dobesilic acid, also known as dobesilate, is an aromatic sulfonic acid derived from hydroquinone; its diethylammonium salt, etamsylate, is a hemostatic drug used against capillary bleeding since the 1960s.

Dobie Gray

Dobie Gray (1940-2011), American soul-country-pop singer also known as Lawrence Darrow Brown, famous for "Drift Away" (No. 5, 1973), "The 'In' Crowd," and the Northern Soul anthem "Out on the Floor."