Slang word of the day: DBI

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DBI

noun

• acronym for "dirtbag index", an insulting notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.

  DBI refers to "Dirt Bag Index", and multiplies the number of tattoos with the number of missing teeth to give an estimate of the number of days since the patient last bathed.
  
  -- "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)