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Definition of PFO
PFO 
noun
- acronym for "patient fell over", a notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.
Citation from "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: British, UK slang (list of).
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Last edited on Aug 27 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 23 2010.
- a rejection letter. Acronym for "please fuck off".
- See more words with the same meaning: acronyms (list of).
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
- See more words with the same meaning: to go, leave, exit.
Last edited on Aug 27 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 06 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'British, UK slang (list of)': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient", an insulting notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
| Definitions include: British Military slang for a knife, fork and spoon. | |
| Definitions include: The same as ditto (British). | |
| Definitions include: extremely drunk. Common in Ireland and the UK. | |
| Definitions include: nonsense. | |
| Definitions include: to steal money from an organization of which one is a member; "embezzle". | |
| Definitions include: a fool. Origin: British. | |
| Definitions include: a petty criminal who deals in stolen goods or counterfeit items. | |
| Definitions include: a crush. | |
| Definitions include: affirmative. | |
| Definitions include: a variant of the word shit, commonly used in the UK and Ireland, and playfully used in the United States. | |
| Definitions include: "Yank". | |
| Definitions include: a wealthy, upper-class person. | |
| Definitions include: a small amount. | |
| Definitions include: Sarcastic and bitchy. | |
Other terms relating to 'acronyms (list of)': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "bring your own beer", "bring your own bottle", or "bring your own booze". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "dad I'd like to fuck". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "out of box experience." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "today I learned". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "works for me". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for mother fucker. | |
| Definitions include: "to be honest". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "as far as I can see". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "over-heard". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "another bloody cathedral" or "another bloody church". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I seem to recall". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "safe for work." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Question(s) and Answer(s)". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "just shat my pants." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I miss you so much." | |
Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: to take something vertical, i.e. to upper management. | |
| Definitions include: a break in the workday when employees gather to ingest drugs. | |
| Definitions include: a lucrative endeavor that requires little work. | |
| Definitions include: at a place of employment, to do little work while waiting for one's stock options to vest. | |
| Definitions include: a person hired for their expertise. | |
| Definitions include: "specification". | |
| Definitions include: a person's primary skill. | |
| Definitions include: to invent ideas and solutions, usually by coming up with as many as possible while not rejecting any out of hand. | |
| Definitions include: an unenthusiastic worker, especially in an office setting. | |
| Definitions include: the corporate headquarters of a business, or a person or group representing the corporate headquarters. | |
| Definitions include: a meeting. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "work from home" or "working from home". | |
| Definitions include: an all-night period of awakedness to finish a task. | |
| Definitions include: a fictional business report made popular by the film "Office Space" and used in the TV show "Lost." | |
| Definitions include: work (in a professional or educational setting) that is designed to keep a person busy, but to not permit that person to accomplish anything of note. | |
Other terms relating to 'medicine (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: to perform varicose vein surgery. | |
| Definitions include: a non-conventional doctor. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "funny looking kid", an insult used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
| Definitions include: a psychiatric hospital. | |
| Definitions include: "ambulance". | |
| Definitions include: Bad person, moron, idiot. | |
| Definitions include: castration. | |
| Definitions include: a pimple. | |
| Definitions include: to get plastic surgery. | |
| Definitions include: "placebo" backwards. | |
| Definitions include: a pill of amphetamine. | |
| 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: a mythical medical support vehicle for people who whine. | |
| Definitions include: to go from doctor to doctor to obtain prescriptions for pharmaceuticals. | |
| Definitions include: anabolic steroids. | |
Other terms relating to 'to go, leave, exit': | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: "scram" in Pig Latin. | |
| Definitions include: see outie. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to leave (a relationship) or abandon. | |
| Definitions include: To leave suddenly without telling anyone or being seen. | |
| Definitions include: to leave; go away. | |
| Definitions include: "goodbye"; "see you later". | |
| Definitions include: leave | |
| Definitions include: To exit somewhere quickly. | |
| Definitions include: to get high. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to leave a place to go somewhere else. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
Other terms relating to 'over': | |
| Definitions include: See be all over. | |
| Definitions include: pestering a person. | |
| Definitions include: pestering multiple people. | |
| Definitions include: Arse over tip / arse over tit. | |
| Definitions include: fallen in a dramatic fashion; "head over heels". | |
| Definitions include: fallen in a dramatic fashion; "head over heels". | |
| Definitions include: to do something with vigor. | |
| Definitions include: a command (usually given by objects) implying that one is about to be taken advantage of, be in a bad situation, or fail miserably. | |
| Definitions include: a phrase of one is about to be in trouble big-time or something bad is about to happen. | |
| Definitions include: to be extremely accommodating. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "bend over here it comes again." | |
| Definitions include: to give to; hand over. | |
| Definitions include: to go. | |
| Definitions include: to go. | |
| Definitions include: very crazy. | |
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Other terms relating to 'patient': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "patient got thumped", a notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
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