crim.
abbreviation
criminal.
crim.
Americanabbreviation
crim
1
British
/ krɪm /
noun
crim.
2
British
abbreviation
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“Well, since they did away with crim. cons, there’s nothing left for females but murders and divorces, worth speaking of.”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
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
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
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
Let us own, too, we were ashamed, as we had good right to be ashamed, of our old crim. con. law.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
“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
Helen Mirren, having just played in The Good Liar, gets involved with another singular crim.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2019
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
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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