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Definition of DL, the

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Other terms relating to 'acronyms (list of)':

Definitions include: acronym for "common, off-the-shelf".
Definitions include: acronym for "out of the box".
Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."
Definitions include: acronym of "big fucking deal."
Definitions include: acronym for "laughing my rear off" or "laughing my rump off".
Definitions include: "from what I understand".
Definitions include: acronym for "LOLing on [the] floor laughing".
Definitions include: Most uses of "shit" also work with "crap", except where noted below.
Definitions include: acronym for "best friend(s) for life".
Definitions include: promotional material.
Definitions include: acronym for "I love you".
Definitions include: acronym for "what you doing" i.e. "what are you doing".
Definitions include: acronym for "good luck, have fun".
Definitions include: "ass to mouth".
Definitions include: acronym of "as far as I know."

Other terms relating to 'quiet, secret':

Definitions include: "on the down low", i.e. secret.
Definitions include: secretive.
Definitions include: away from public scrutiny.
Definitions include: secret.
Definitions include: "cutie."
Definitions include: mom aka "mother".

Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'down':

Definitions include: to prepare for hardship.
Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
Definitions include: to back down from a situation.
Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet.
Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god."
Definitions include: to sadden one.
Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd.
Definitions include: unattractive.
Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people.
Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in.
Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
Definitions include: to eat.
Definitions include: to give someone oral sex.
Definitions include: to stop being angry.

Other terms relating to 'low':

Definitions include: DL is short for down-low, which basically means to keep things under-wraps, to keep a secret or lay low.
Definitions include: to keep quiet.
Definitions include: to have the zipper on one's trousers unzipped.
Definitions include: to get a haircut.
Definitions include: to have sexual intercourse with a woman.
Definitions include: acronym for "Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt", an insult used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.
Definitions include: to hide.
Definitions include: keep it a secret.
Definitions include: acronym for "lower Alabama".
Definitions include: to hide.
Definitions include: to hide.
Definitions include: very much under the influence of marijuana; "very high".
Definitions include: a session of communication that has little information relative to its time-length.
Definitions include: a mean-spirited response.
Definitions include: low-class.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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