BPD

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English

Noun

BPD (uncountable)

  1. (psychiatry) Initialism of borderline personality disorder.
    • 2001 July 23, Howard S. Friedman, The Disorders: Specialty Articles from the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 109:
      The four overlapping concepts of borderline were as follows : (1) A residual model (2) An affective disorder model, which considered BPD as an affective spectrum illness displaying prominent 

Proper noun

BPD

  1. Initialism of Baltimore Police Department.
  2. Initialism of Boston Police Department.
    • 2014 October 9, Marina Carver, “Study finds Boston police target African-Americans disproportionately”, in CNN:
      “In a four-year span, the BPD targeted Blacks for roughly 129,600 encounters – 63.3% of 204,739 – that did not result in arrest,” the report said.

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