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1.(vulgar) An incompetent individual; one who errs frequently.
He is such a DLR.
2.(vulgar) A severe mistake.
...That DLR totally cost you the chilli shot.

Translations Finnish: kämmäri (slang)
Russian: долбоёб ru(ru) (dolbojób) m. ]

Verb to DLR (third-person singular simple present DLR, present participle DLRing, simple past and past participle DLR'd)
1.(intransitive) (slang) To make a mistake, to go wrong
You really DLRd this time.
2.(transitive) To botch or make a mess of
I DRL'd my line in that scene.
3.(transitive) to injure or damage
I DRL'd my spinal cord while making that amazing human pyramid in bath.
DLR by Zimmee Zimmee April 14, 2011
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A man's hairy gut aka David Lee Roth. Named after David Lee Roth, original front man of Van Halen, and his ability to let his hairy gut show.
DLR by Madman_Moyer January 14, 2010
Short for Dealers.

Also short for “DIGNITY, LOYALTY, AND RESPECT.”
Lefty: DLR forever on top!
DLR by ThizzK December 3, 2023
When you accidentally start a Russo-Communist Orgy in the hopes of freeing your home country of Colombia from the Narcs.
Dan pulled a full-on Dirty DLR in theo class. Schnazuer moment.
Dirty DLR by NoahBerger May 12, 2022
to overanalyze until detached from reality,

to theorize in a vacuum,

to lose sight of the human world through institutional abstraction.
“The committee tried to DLR’d the entire project into oblivion.”
“After a decade in isolation, the scientists had completely DLR’d themselves.”
To DLR by herr landmeister October 15, 2025
A response to a text or message meaning "Dying Laughing Right Now."
*reads funny text/message*

reply: "that shit got me dlrn yo."
dlrn by kracking up July 10, 2010
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