See DNI in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2023 September 26, HarryBlank, “We Stand Divided”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:",
"text": "\"Enough cops down here,\" she agreed. She flashed back to Mukami's mental message, the brutal treatment in the hot shed, and felt unhappy uncertainty boiling in her stomach. \"They know you were stealing from us? \"Hell no. You guys are DNI. But I got tired of eating hospital food, so.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In the list of types of people who are requested to not interact with the poster."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"interact",
"interact"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang, predicative) In the list of types of people who are requested to not interact with the poster."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"not-comparable",
"predicative"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"roman": "jiroe",
"sense": "online slang for prohibited people or topics",
"word": "지뢰"
}
],
"word": "DNI"
}
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