Definition of 21

21

noun

• a request for a phone call. From CB and other radio communication terminology. Shortened from "10-21".

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  • See more words with the same meaning: CB radio (related to).
  • See more words with the same meaning: telephone, phone.

  Last edited on Nov 24 2010. Submitted by Pazuzu from Minneapolis, MN, USA on Oct 27 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'CB radio (related to)':
5 by 5	Definitions include: See five by five.
20	Definitions include: knowledge of the location of a person or thing.
10-4	Definitions include: "message understood."
10-20	Definitions include: "What is your 20?" i.e. "What is your current location?"
Other terms relating to 'telephone, phone':
blow up	Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)
tinkle	Definitions include: to urinate.
digits	Definitions include: phone number.
con call	Definitions include: abbreviated form of "conference call".
burner	Definitions include: a handgun.
jack	Definitions include: a five pound note.
brick	Definitions include: very cold.
celly	Definitions include: cell phone.
cell	Definitions include: cell phone.
keys	Definitions include: phone number or digits.
dog	Definitions include: a friend.
horn	Definitions include: phone.
booty call	Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.)
buzz	Definitions include: to call on a telephone.
blower	Definitions include: a person or object that erred.
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fart around	Definitions include: to waste time, to mess around.
eat sh*t and die	Definitions include: telling someone to fuck off.
wat	Definitions include: "what".
bffute	Definitions include: Best Friend Forever Until The End
super freak	Definitions include: a big freak.
white-collar job	Definitions include: an office job.
bottle of crazy sauce	Definitions include: a crazy person.
beat (one's) own drum	Definitions include: to praise one's self.
thal	Definitions include: subject feminine singular form of that
oober	Definitions include: misspelling of uber.

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