Definition of "don't"

“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. […]”

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

Don't stand, Don't stand so, Don't stand so close to me.

1980, The Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me", Zenyatta Mondatta, A&M Records

Don't ask what you can do for your country / Ask what your country can do for you

1990, Dave Mustaine, "Take No Prisoners", Megadeth, Rust in Peace.

Scott Pelley: As Ukraine succeeds on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is becoming embarrassed and pushed into a corner, and I wonder Mr. President what you would say to him if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.Biden: Don't. Don't. Don't. It would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.

2022 September 16, Joe Biden, quotee, 0:00 from the start, in President Biden warns Vladimir Putin not to use nuclear weapons: "Don't. Don't. Don't."‎, CBS News, archived from the original on 16 September 2022‎

My mother knows old Mr. Laurence, but says he’s very proud and don’t like to mix with his neighbors.

1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 2, in Little Women

I sure hope the road don’t come to own me.

1971, Carol King, “So Far Away”, Tapestry, Ode Records

My girlfriend's jealous 'cause I talk about you twenty-four seven / But she don't know you like I know you, Slim, no one does / She don't know what it was like for people like us growing up / You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose

2000, “Stan”, in Eminem (music), The Marshall Mathers LP

She don't like the flash, wanna keep us in the dark / She don't like the fame, baby when we're miles apart

2012, “She Don't Like the Lights”, in Justin Bieber (music), Believe

The highway don't care

2013, “Highway Don't Care”, in Tim McGraw (music), Two Lanes of Freedom

Love don't come easy, I know that it don't

2017, “Rico Acid”, Emily Blue (music)

Among the don'ts he had done before he was twenty-one were peyote, alcohol, mescaline, and Methedrine.

1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem