health warning
(UK, colloquial) An indication or admission that an opinion, statistic, etc.
Definitions
(UK, colloquial) An indication or admission that an opinion, statistic, etc. is to be treated with doubt or scepticism.
As I am a member of that political party, my views must come with a health warning.
“Yeah! Dad comes with a health warning… I have more Broke a glass lamp with a ricochet air gun pellet shooting out of a window with a metal bar across it. Hit bar and ping ping ping. Chainsawed through his laces ( now banned from chainsawing).”
— Bluesky· May 2026
Comments
(UK) An official edict that a particular substance or activity is dangerous, or an expression of such an edict.
The law requires a health warning on packets of cigarettes.
Comments
Used in
Have a better definition?
Add your own interpretation of "health warning".
🇬🇧About British & Irish slang slang
UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
See all British & Irish slang slang on Slangora.
Tags
Other words near "health warning" (H)
Browse all slang words starting with H.
Related terms
People also read
Semantically related
- 61%
(chiefly, US, idiomatic) A warning or call to pay attention; an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler.
- 58%
(UK, colloquial) Think again; an admonition to somebody who is behaving badly or saying something unacceptable.
- 57%
(countable) A formal notification or warning.
- 57%
An Indian and South Asian exclamation used as a warning meaning be careful, watch out, or beware. The word is used directly as a command or caution and carries urgency. Common in Hindi, Urdu, and related languages and crosses naturally into South Asian English conversation.