the DL

the DL

1. slang A shortening of "down low," referring to a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge. Keep this on the DL, but Janet is planning to break up with Kevin next week. My parents know about the pregnancy, but I'd like it to stay on the DL otherwise.
2. slang A shortening of "down low," referring to a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge pertaining to the activities of a man who has sex with other men but considers himself to be heterosexual. I never thought he was gay, but then I started to hear rumors that he's on the DL.
3. A shortening of "disabled list," which, in sports, is a list of players who cannot currently play due to injury. Well, our two best players are on the DL, so I'd say our playoff chances are looking grim.
See also: dl
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the DL

verb
See the down low
See also: dl
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (one) is on the DL
  • prostie
  • prosties
  • sesh
  • reg
  • cig
  • cuz
  • clitty
  • frag
  • fragged
References in periodicals archive
The validity period for the DL will be 3 (three)years.
On completion of the application process, one will be advised when to collect the DL.
The LDN group observed significantly less intraoperative blood loss (72.09 mL) compared to the DL (278.02 mL, p < 0 .0001) and FL (187.9 mL, p < 0.0001) groups (Table 2).
Major intraoperative and postoperative complications were more prevalent in the DL group (n = 14) compared to LDN (n = 2, p < 0.01) and FL (n = 5, p < 0.01) (Table 3).
The Red Sox currently have about $32 million worth of players on the DL. Last year, an injury disaster, there was a point in time when the DL included about $50 million worth of baseball flesh.
The 1978 Red Sox, who played 163 games including a playoff with the Yankees, had two players spend a combined total of 26 games on the DL. For the entire decade of the '70s, the Sox had 589 games worth of time combined on the DL - 267 less than last year by itself.
Though I continued discussions around the subject with both white and non-white people, I came to the conclusion that there were few who really wanted to speak honestly about the DL. So, over the last few years, I've joked with more than a few people that I was going to start a trading card set made up of out, bisexual, non-monogamous, black men.
Emulating the collaborative interactive energy of a senior executive level seminar is the DL model The National Defense University's (NDU) Information Resources Management (IRM) College has evolved to over the past 8-years.
The data strongly suggested a correlation between meeting quality criteria in the planning, resourcing, and supporting of DL programs and the successful outcomes achieved by learners and the DL organization itself.
The lineman to the DL's inside is the post man (PB) and the lineman to his outside is the seal man (S).
The introduction of cultural anthropology to the DL assessment process is a beneficial message for librarians.
The overview is a substantial essay (an electronic book) by Thomas Martin that introduces the ancient Greek world and includes hyperlinks to items in the DL. The current PDL includes a number of additional secondary treatments (e.g., vase painting, Greek and Latin syntax).
Although no one would argue that the reference librarian is the sole interface to the real-world library, in many ways the DL interface is the system.