crim

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See also: Crim and Crim.

English

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Etymology

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Shortening.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crim (plural crims)

  1. (UK, Australia, informal) A criminal.
    • 2012, Ian McTavish, A Prisoner's Wisdom: Transcending the Ego, page 128:
      We were the happiest, cheeriest bunch of crims in the whole prison.
    • 2018, “Bitter Pill”, in Wentworth:
      Are the crims running Wentworth? Woman found murdered in Wentworth Correctional Centre.
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Probably borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (sieve) *-mn̥.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crim m (plural crims)

  1. violent crime
    Synonym: (non-violent crime) delicte

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Galician

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Verb

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crim

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of crer