crim.
abbreviation
criminal.
crim.
Americanabbreviation
crim
1
British
/ krɪm /
noun
crim.
2
British
abbreviation
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We had no complex machinery of law; there was no such difficulty as an estate in Chancery; no Divorce Court, or cases of crim. con. that necessitated an appeal.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
The whisperings of side groups may have referred to it; but it was too old to be interesting—even to the most industrious dealers in crim. con. gossip.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
That's the English way of settlin' a crim. con. case.
From A Trooper Galahad by Charles King
As to Turkey as a question for a paper, I can only say as Lord Plunkett did of a crim. con. case: 'I'd like to have a hundred pounds to argue it either way.'
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
You don’t see our newspapers filled, as your’s are, with crim. cons, in high life.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat
“It’s very unusual for a crim or a screw to listen to a prisoner talk for very long,” he wrote in a memoir, using slang for fellow inmates and prison officers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
This east London tale of a petty crim who turns to Islam had moments of greatness but could have done with fewer gangster cliches, thought Xan.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2014
Both characters even have to suffer the death of loved ones, though Dave Lizewski's mum is whacked by a brain haemorrhage, rather than a slimy crim.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2010
One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals was a high-school prize for oratory.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We looked for en, up along and down along, but nary a crim of him did we see."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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