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pan scan 

ct scan of the head, facial bones, cervical spine, chest, abdomen and pelvis, originally used for patients with severe trauma but now used to prove those body parts exist.
Triage nurse: He broke his ankle/got punched in the nose/ was found on the floor next to his bed/ is demented. Pan scan.
ER resident: He looks ok, but he broke a bone. Pan scan.
Radiology attending: He's got an effing nasal bone fracture. What are they looking for? Why the pan scan.
Radiology resident: I don't know. I didn't ask.
Radiology attending: effing pan scan
pan scan by PGY25 April 8, 2025
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Sleight of scan

The method by which one steals items from a store by means of the self-checkout register.
Common practice includes scanning an inexpensive item while bagging a near-identical but more costly one, only partially weighing items, or otherwise misrepresenting the count.
Guy1: "Why pay 99¢ for those gourmet, grocery store bagels when a little sleight of scan can get them for the 59¢ doughnut price?"

Guy2: "Dude, seriously? It's forty cents..."
Sleight of scan by drive-in couch September 25, 2014

No print no scan 

Alternative for “facts”. As in, no print, no scan, just fax.
Pierre: “Predrinks at mine this Friday.”
Farouk: “No print no scan.”
Danilo: “Just fax.”
No print no scan by daltonjfk August 30, 2019

Smoke'n'Scan 

A team composition in Apex Legends, where you have a recon legend, like Bloodhound or Seer, and Bangalore; where you smoke enemy teams with Bangalore, and scan with Bloodhound or Seer.
Oh my god, they're running a Smoke'n'Scan comp.
Smoke'n'Scan by Addimorr May 29, 2022

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University of Scandal and Corruption 

A Los Angeles-based university that boasts numerous scandals and years of corruption in an attempt to appear as an academic elite and an athletic powerhouse.
If you want to feel embarrassed as an alumnus, then graduate from the University of Scandal and Corruption.