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5150ed

5150ed is the simple past and past participle of 5150.

Meaning of 5150

Verb

5150 (third-person singular simple present 5150s or 5150's, present participle 5150ing or 5150'ing, simple past and past participle 5150ed or 5150'd or 5150'ed)

  1. (US, slang, transitive) To involuntarily confine someone for a mental illness that poses a risk to themselves or others.
    • And they're all, "He's over there against the tree, he's not talking to us, he's not saying anything and he has a history of being a psychiatric patient and so we're 5150ing him."1998, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Talking trauma: paramedics and their stories, page 117

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Questions about 5150ed

What is 5150ed the simple past and past participle of?
5150ed is the simple past and past participle of 5150.

Words near 5150ed in the dictionary

  1. 50th District
  2. 51 percent
  3. 51%
  4. 512th note
  5. 5150
  6. 5150ed
  7. 5150ing
  8. 5150s
  9. 5160
  10. 51st
  11. 51st state

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