scanless

English

Etymology 1

A pronunciation spelling of scandalous.

Adjective

scanless (comparative more scanless, superlative most scanless)

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Scandalous, shameful.
   • 1982, Alice Walker, The Color Purple, San Diego, C.A. […]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, →ISBN, page 229:

     Both of us messed over my first wife a scanless. And she never told nobody. Plus, she didn't have nobody to tell.

   • 1995, Celeste Fremon, Father Greg & the Homeboys: The Extraordinary Journey of Father Greg Boyle and His Work With the Latino Gangs of East L.A., New York: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 252:

     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.

   • 2011, Ice-T, Mal Radcliff, Kings of Vice, Forge Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     He wanted to get his fly honeys in and out on the QT, hide some of his assets, that kind of skanless behavior.

Alternative forms

• skanless

Etymology 2

From scan +‎ -less.

Adjective

scanless (comparative more scanless, superlative most scanless)

1. Without being scanned.
   • 2003, Neil Ruzic, Racing to a Cure: A Cancer Victim Refuses Chemotherapy and Finds Tomorrow's Cures in Today's Scientific Laboratories, Urbana, I.L., Chicago, I.L.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 172:

     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, the longest I had gone scanless since diagnosis.

   • 2019, Gavin Wood, Tin God, Azure Press, →ISBN, page 211:

     Some weeks earlier than expected, now with blood on the floor, and scanless, and doctorless, Skaiala was about to have the child.

2. Not involving or requiring scanning.
   • 2017 January 5, Serena Bovetti, Claudio Moretti, Stefano Zucca, Marco Dal Maschio, Paolo Bonifazi, Tommaso Fellin, “Simultaneous high-speed imaging and optogenetic inhibition in the intact mouse brain”, in Scientific Reports, volume 7, London: Nature Portfolio, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     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 Archaerhodopsin. Using combined imaging and electrophysiological recording, we demonstrate that single and short bursts of action potentials in pyramidal neurons can be detected in the scanless modality at acquisition frequencies up to 1kHz.

   • 2023 August 24, Sarah Perez, “Starbucks is experimenting with 'scanless checkout' for drive-through users”, in TechCrunch‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 December 2023:

     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 customer bought at a store so they could just leave when shopping is complete.

Further reading

• “scanless”, “skanless”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.
• Jonathon Green (2024) “scanless n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang