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DBI

Dirt Bag Index. Multiply number of tattoos by number of missing teeth to find how many days since person's last day of bathing. tn=b, where t is number of tattoos, n is number of missing teeth, and b is days since bathing. Most commonly used unofficially in hospitals.

Nurse: Good Lord, this guy's DBI is 45, somebody get me the hose.

Q Sign

In medical slang, the Q-sign is a dead patient or a patient with extreme morbidity. The Q is a reference to the patient's tongue hanging out of its mouth, making a Q sign.

Nurse: Get the paddles, I'm gettin a Q sign from the new admit!

Crowd Pleaser

Originally named for the larger sets of fireworks that gave particularly large displays of flash and bang, a crowd pleaser is any weapon, usually a gun or missile, that is above average in its devastation.

Soldier 1: What's that bomber packin, B-53s? Soldier 2: Nah, B-90 Bettys. Soldier 3: Ooo, crowd pleasers.