"HRU" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: HRUs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} HRU (plural HRUs)
  1. Initialism of harm reduction unit. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: harm reduction unit
    Sense id: en-HRU-en-noun-k0IKWSBn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} HRU
  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of how are you?. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: how are you? Synonyms: hru
    Sense id: en-HRU-en-phrase-AfHP5bcI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for HRU meaning in English (1.3kB)

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