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5150s

5150s is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 5150s

What is 5150s the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
5150s is the third-person singular simple present indicative of 5150.

Words near 5150s in the dictionary

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

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