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Definition of be pumpkin positive
pumpkin positive
adjective
- an insulting notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. "...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."
Citation from "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: British, UK slang (list of).
Last edited on May 31 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 23 2010.
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| Definitions include: Used on medical charts in the UK to indicate that the patient is an elderly female, due to the possession of a handbag. | |
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