Initialism of missing in action.
When his patrol didn't come back from the front, he and all his buddies were listed as MIA.
Absent for a long time.
My friends have been MIA today.
Initialism of Mutual Improvement Association.
Initialism of Middle Indo-Aryan.
A female given name from German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish.
- - - I know he thinks my name is awkward to say. He rarely calls me Mia." Christened Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow, she couldn't pronounce Maria when she was a toddler and called herself Mia.
Clipping of bulimia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Mia as form of personification and coded language. Compare ana.
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Initialism of missing in action, a service member that did not return from action and was not found in the field.
Bulimia nervosa.
A surname from Bengali.