diabetes

1. (pathology) Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.Examples: "In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand."Synonyms: diabetes mellitus, DM, diabeetusuncountable

2. (slang, humorous) Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.Examples: "This milkshake is pure diabetes, as my friends and I agreed on as a joke when we first came to Black Tap."humorousslanguncountable