Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation driving under the influence (of drugs or alcohol)
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prefix attached to the name of a chemical element and forming with it a provisional name for a hypothetical element, which, according to the periodic system of Mendelejeff, should have such properties as to stand in the same group with the element to which the profix is attached and next but one to it.
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- initialism law Driving Under the Influence (of drugs or alcohol).
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Examples
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The boys are now 20 and 24, and while they have made some poor choices (a DUI is the worst thing) they are good young men.
Ask Amy washingtonpost.com 2010
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I realize Horse's Ass and others are all worked up about it, but as a PR issue, a DUI is a DUI.
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And I've said before that the DUI is the least of McGavick's flaws.
Sound Politics: Driver In Alki DUI Deaths Extolled Drinking And Driving, Online 2006
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State police are investigating what they characterize as a DUI crash that injured three
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Anyway, we; re at arond 1.5 million arrests in DUI alone.
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I guess a DUI from the Sheriff was better than a couple of loads from a 12 gauge .....
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"I think someone who has lost a child to a drunken driver might argue that a DUI is more serious than a 20-year-old resisting arrest."
Jason Salzman: Post to Publish Clarification That GOP State House Candidate Webster Shot Twice at Ex-Wife; Fox 31 Should Do Same Jason Salzman 2010
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I guess a DUI from the Sheriff was better than a couple of loads from a 12 gauge .....
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"I think someone who has lost a child to a drunken driver might argue that a DUI is more serious than a 20-year-old resisting arrest."
Jason Salzman: Post to Publish Clarification That GOP State House Candidate Webster Shot Twice at Ex-Wife; Fox 31 Should Do Same Jason Salzman 2010
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Not surprising, they already do this in DUI cases in lots of jurisdictions and there are a whole lot more penalties associated with that.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » If Joe Arpaio Says Your Guilty, That’s Good Enough For Us 2009
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