DUI

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Noun

DUI (countable and uncountable, plural DUIs)

  1. A charge or conviction for driving under the influence (of drugs or alcohol).
    • 2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times‎:
      Mr. Kelly acknowledged that alcoholism has been a problem for some air marshals — he said about 13 marshals had gotten D.U.I.s in the last three years — and he said that one marshal in the last five years had committed suicide.
    • 2020 February 27, Peter Jakubowicz, “The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night”, in Slate Magazine‎:
      They can go out and drink without worrying about getting a DUI or killing someone driving home (“I’m much better off in the back of your car, aren’t I?”).
    • 2020, Douglas Cowan, Jon Scott Fox, Defending DUIs in Washington, 3rd edition, →ISBN:
      [see title]

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driving under the influence
driving under the influence

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Spanish

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Noun

DUI m (plural DUI)

  1. Acronym of declaración unilateral de independencia (“UDI (unilateral declaration of independence)”).

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