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scanless

scanless adjective: scandalous, shameful.

Adjective (1)

scanless (comparative more scanless, superlative most scanless)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Scandalous, shameful.
    • Both of us messed over my first wife a scanless. And she never told nobody. Plus, she didn't have nobody to tell.1982, Alice Walker, The Color Purple, San Diego, C.A. […]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, →ISBN, page 229
    • I felt so scanless "G" that me and Dreamer (don't get mad "G" we know we fucked up but at that time anger took over our minds) we broked his car windows and left it full of mud.1995, Celeste Fremon, Father Greg & the Homeboys: The Extraordinary Journey of Father Greg Boyle and His Work With the Latino Gangs of East L.A., New York: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 252

Adjective (2)

scanless (comparative more scanless, superlative most scanless)

  1. Without being scanned.
    • For one who before cancer had lived his life with almost no thought of illness, I wondered more than once whether I wasn't overreacting by requesting too many CAT scans. Still, this would be the first in five months, the longest I had gone scanless since diagnosis.2003, Neil Ruzic, Racing to a Cure: A Cancer Victim Refuses Chemotherapy and Finds Tomorrow's Cures in Today's Scientific Laboratories, Urbana, I.L.; Chicago, I.L.: University of Illinois Press...
    • Some weeks earlier than expected, now with blood on the floor, and scanless, and doctorless, Skaiala was about to have the child.2019, Gavin Wood, Tin God, Azure Press, →ISBN, page 211
  2. Not involving or requiring scanning.
    • Here, we developed a technique based on patterned two-photon illumination to allow fast scanless imaging of GCaMP6 signals in the intact mouse brain at the same time as single-photon optogenetic inhibition with Archaerhodopsin. Using combined imaging and electrophysiological recording, we...2017 January 5, Serena Bovetti, Claudio Moretti, Stefano Zucca, Marco Dal Maschio, Paolo Bonifazi, Tommaso Fellin, “Simultaneous high-speed imaging and optogenetic inhibition in the intact mouse...
    • Starbucks isn't the only retailer to test out scanless payment tech, of course. Amazon has been developing its own Just Walk Out technology that uses camera systems, an app and machine learning tech to determine what a customer bought at a store so they could just leave when shopping is complete.2023 August 24, Sarah Perez, “Starbucks is experimenting with 'scanless checkout' for drive-through users”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2023

Forms of scanless

comparativemore scanless
superlativemost scanless
alternative formskanless

Origin of scanless

A pronunciation spelling of scandalous.

From scan + -less.

Questions about scanless

What does scanless mean?
Scanless means scandalous, shameful.
What part of speech is scanless?
Scanless is an adjective.

Words near scanless in the dictionary

  1. scanlating
  2. scanlation
  3. scanlations
  4. scanlator
  5. scanlators
  6. scanless
  7. scanline
  8. scanlines
  9. Scanlon
  10. Scanlons
  11. scanmag

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