crim
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Shortening.
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crim (plural crims)
- (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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Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.
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crim m (plural crims)
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- “crim” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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crim
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of crer