Definition of "did"

did

/dɪd/

verb
1. simple past of do
  Quotations
  Then ſhe with liquors ſtrong his eies did ſteepe, / That nothing ſhould him haſtily awake […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 254
2. (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do; done
  Quotations
  […] But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that."
  2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence‎, NYU Press, page 140
  We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why?
  2010 October 10, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies‎, Edinburgh University Press, page 189
  “Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!"
  2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores‎, Penguin, page 288
  On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did
  2022, Nas (lyrics and music), “Legit”, in King's Disease III