Today's slang word of the day is LOBNH. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
adjective
- acronym for "lights on but nobody home", an insulting notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.
From LOBNH (Lights On But Nobody Home), CNS-QNS (Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient), to the delightful term "pumpkin positive", which refers to the implication that a penlight shone into the patient's mouth would encounter a brain so small that the whole head would light up.
-- "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
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