scanless
Without being scanned.
Adjective
- Without being scanned.
- For one who before cancer had lived his life with almost no thought of illness, I wondered more than once whether I wasn't overreacting by requesting too many CAT scans. Still, this would be the first in five months,...
- Some weeks earlier than expected, now with blood on the floor, and scanless, and doctorless, Skaiala was about to have the child. - 2019, Gavin Wood, Tin God, Azure Press, →ISBN, page 211:
- Not involving or requiring scanning.
- Here, we developed a technique based on patterned two-photon illumination to allow fast scanless imaging of GCaMP6 signals in the intact mouse brain at the same time as single-photon optogenetic inhibition with...
- Starbucks isn't the only retailer to test out scanless payment tech, of course. Amazon has been developing its own Just Walk Out technology that uses camera systems, an app and machine learning tech to determine what a...
Origin
From scan + -less.
Forms
Adjective slang
- Scandalous, shameful.
- Both of us messed over my first wife a scanless. And she never told nobody. Plus, she didn't have nobody to tell. - 1982, Alice Walker, The Color Purple, San Diego, C.A. […]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers,...
- I felt so scanless "G" that me and Dreamer (don't get mad "G" we know we fucked up but at that time anger took over our minds) we broked his car windows and left it full of mud. - 1995, Celeste Fremon, Father Greg & the...
- He wanted to get his fly honeys in and out on the QT, hide some of his assets, that kind of skanless behavior. - 2011, Ice-T, Mal Radcliff, Kings of Vice, Forge Books, →ISBN, page 101:
Origin
A pronunciation spelling of scandalous.