DB

See also: db, Db, dB, ȸ, and D♭

English

Noun

DB (plural DBs)

  1. Initialism of dead body.
    • 1952, LIFE (volume 32, number 1, page 20)
      With an extra-long weekend before Christmas and New Year's Day coming up, the police of motorized, subwayless Los Angeles had learned by experience to expect plenty of wrecked cars and DBs (dead bodies) on their hands.
  2. (American football, Canadian football) Initialism of defensive back.
  3. (databases) Initialism of database.
  4. (military, US) Initialism of depot brigade.

Hyponyms

Proper noun

DB

  1. (rail transport) Initialism of Deutsche Bahn. (German Railways)

Anagrams

German

Proper noun

DB

  1. (initialism) (rail transport) Deutsche Bahn, the national railway company of Germany
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