(US, law) A court or other tribunal that is noted for the speedy disposition of cases.

The convention in the United Kingdom that restricts the police and intelligence services from tapping the telephones of Members of the House of Commons and House of Lords.

(idiomatic) An honorific for a doctor, especially for a doctor of medicine (a physician) or for Dr. Samuel Johnson.

(idiomatic) An honorific form of address to a doctor.

(Southern US) A dragonfly

(nautical) a dry dock which can float, and is submersible when a ship is entering or leaving it.

A cocktail made by filling a shot glass with three parts amaretto and one part high-proof liquor — layered, not mixed — then setting it on fire and dropping it into a glass of beer, which extinguishes the flames.

plural of Flaming Doctor Pepper

(obsolete) A physician who treats the insane.

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