Dada Common

an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

"The toddler pointed at his sleeping dad and giggled, calling him dada while clutching a stuffed bear."

a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty

"The museum curator explained how Dada artists deliberately smashed traditional aesthetics by creating chaotic collages and absurd readymades to reject logic."

Father, dad.

"The artist's chaotic collage perfectly embodied the spirit of Dada, rejecting traditional aesthetics with its jarring mix of found objects and nonsensical text."

Illegal drugs.

Alternative letter-case form of Dada (“cultural movement”).

A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.