Skip to main content
1.) Police code for a crazy person, a lunatic.
2.) Sometimes used by crazy people (ie, Scanner Dan) to call non-crazy people names.
1.) COP: Dispatch, we got a 1096 in front of Walgreens on State St, I'm gonna need back-up.

2.) Zac: A crazy!
Scanner Dan: You're crazy!
Zac: You're crazier!
Scanner Dan: You're a 1096!
Zac & Matt laugh histerically
1096 by pyner42 February 24, 2009
Related Words
A police term, common in the Midwest, used to describe a person with mental delusions, commonly known as an "emotionally disturbed person."
2-David-13, report of a 10-96 male subject at 42 W. Main, running through traffic. Subject has several priors, manic depressive and suicidal.
10-96 by Mobile Man September 15, 2004
1.) Police code for a crazy person, someone who is mentally disturbed

2.) Sometimes used by crazies (ie, Scanner Dan) to call non-crazy people names.
1.) COP: Dispatch, we got a 1096 in front of Walgreens on State St, I'm gonna need back-up.

2.) Zac: (At Scanner Dan) "Crazy!"
Scanner Dan: "You're crazy!"
Zac: "You're crazier!"
Scanner Dan: "You're a 10-96!"
Zac & Matt laugh histerically
10-96 by pyner42 May 4, 2010

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026