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5150ing

5150ing is the present participle and gerund 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 5150ing

What is 5150ing the present participle and gerund of?
5150ing is the present participle and gerund of 5150.

Words near 5150ing in the dictionary

  1. 51 percent
  2. 51%
  3. 512th note
  4. 5150
  5. 5150ed
  6. 5150ing
  7. 5150s
  8. 5160
  9. 51st
  10. 51st state
  11. 52 pickup

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