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DWB

DWB is the initialism of driving while black.

Meaning of driving while black

Noun

driving while black (uncountable)

  1. (US, sarcastic) A fictitious criminal offense, said to be committed when a traffic stop is motivated by a police officer's racial bias against a black motorist, rather than any actual violation of law.
    • I was pulled over for driving while black yesterday. That idiot cop spent 20 minutes asking me a bunch of crap.
    Synonyms:
    DWB

Origin of DWB

A play on DWI (“driving while intoxicated”).

Questions about DWB

What is DWB the initialism of?
DWB is the initialism of driving while black.

Words near DWB in the dictionary

  1. dwaumed
  2. dwauming
  3. dwaums
  4. Dwayne
  5. DWAYOR
  6. DWB
  7. DWC
  8. DWCB
  9. DWCL
  10. DWCV
  11. DWD

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DWB (page history and authors); driving while black (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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