5150

plural 5150s · alternative fifty-one fifty

1. USslangOne who should be involuntarily confined.

present singular third person 5150s · present singular third person 5150's · participle present 5150ing · participle present 5150'ing · participle past 5150ed · past 5150ed · participle past 5150'd · past 5150'd · participle past 5150'ed · past 5150'ed · alternative fifty-one fifty

1. USslangtransitiveTo involuntarily confine someone for a mental illness that poses a risk to themselves or others.

   Finally she said, “Zach, i'm calling 911 and have them 5150 you.”

   2007, Allison Brennan, Karin Tabke, Roxanne St. Claire, What You Can't See, page 382

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   And they're all, "He's over there against the tree, he's not talking to us, he's not saying anything and he has a history of being a psychiatric patient and so we're 5150ing him."

   1998, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Talking trauma: paramedics and their stories, page 117

   Sure, if you've ever been 5150ed by the Psychiatric Evaluation Team (no thanks to you and Rachael. Just because I was flipping my wig, flinging dishes and threatening to kill myself didn't mean I was actually SUICIDAL, guys! Jeez!) […]

   2000, Clint Catalyst, Cottonmouth Kisses, page 150

   “I'm going to keep him under sedation until tomorrow morning, and then 5150 him at UCI Medical Center Psychiatric Unit.”

   2006, J. T. McCalla, Reversal of Fear, page 187

   Then, almost immediately on the heels of Beverly came Dante, who'd been 5150ed by his mother.

   2010, Jane Vandenburgh, A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century, page 358

   And it's not possible to 5150 him [place him on a psychiatric hold]. He's not a danger to self, not a danger to others.

   2011, Patricia Benner, Patricia Hooper-Kyriakidis, Daphne Stannard, Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care, page 438

   Synonyms: commit, section, Baker Act

comparative more 5150 · superlative most 5150 · alternative fifty-one fifty

1. USslangOf such an unsound mind that one should be involuntarily confined.

   Synonyms: crazy