Anti-Defecation League

Proper noun

the Anti-Defecation League

1. (derogatory, humorous, offensive, slang) The Anti-Defamation League.
   • At the bottom of that card, he wrote "Jew lawyer with ADL" and put it in the back of his file box. "ADL stands for Anti-Defecation League, not Anti-Defamation League,” he said into his tape recorder with a chuckle.1995, Kathryn Watterson, Not by the Sword, How the Love of a Cantor and His Family Transformed a Klansman, page 52
   • "In a desperate, grandstand, money-making move, the 'Anti-Defecation League' and their sweetheart, Morris 'I wish I wuz a Jew' Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, have fallen into WAR's clutches," he sneered on the WAR hot line.2003, Elinor Langer, A Hundred Little Hitlers, The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America, page 293