mada

-mada (canonical)
kumada (infinitive)
kumada (infinitive)
kutomada (infinitive negative)
mada (imperative singular)
madeni (imperative plural)
humada (habitual)
positive subject concord + -limada (past)
negative subject concord + -kumada (negative past)
ninamada (first-person present singular)
namada (first-person present singular)
tunamada (first-person plural present)
unamada (present second-person singular)
mnamada (plural present second-person)
anamada (class-1 class-2 present singular third-person)
wanamada (class-1 class-2 plural present third-person)
positive subject concord + -namada (present third-person)
simadi (first-person negative present singular)
hatumadi (first-person negative plural present)
humadi (negative present second-person singular)
hammadi (negative plural present second-person)
hamadi (class-1 class-2 negative present singular third-person)
hawamadi (class-1 class-2 negative plural present third-person)
negative subject concord + -madi (negative present third-person)
positive subject concord + -tamada (future)
negative subject concord + -tamada (future negative)
nimade (first-person singular subjunctive)
tumade (first-person plural subjunctive)
umade (second-person singular subjunctive)
mmade (plural second-person subjunctive)
amade (class-1 class-2 singular subjunctive third-person)
wamade (class-1 class-2 plural subjunctive third-person)
positive subject concord + -made (subjunctive third-person)
positive subject concord + -simade (negative subjunctive)
positive subject concord + -ngemada (irrealis present)
positive subject concord + -singemada (irrealis negative present)
positive subject concord + -ngalimada (irrealis past)
positive subject concord + -singalimada (irrealis negative past)
namada (first-person gnomic singular)
twamada (first-person gnomic plural)
wamada (gnomic second-person singular)
mwamada (gnomic plural second-person)
amada (class-1 class-2 gnomic singular third-person)
wamada (class-1 class-2 gnomic plural third-person)
wamada (class-3 class-4 gnomic singular third-person)
yamada (class-3 class-4 gnomic plural third-person)
lamada (class-5 class-6 gnomic singular third-person)
yamada (class-5 class-6 gnomic plural third-person)
chamada (class-7 class-8 gnomic singular third-person)
vyamada (class-7 class-8 gnomic plural third-person)
yamada (class-10 class-9 gnomic singular third-person)
zamada (class-10 class-9 gnomic plural third-person)
wamada (class-11 gnomic singular third-person)
kwamada (class-15 class-17 gnomic singular third-person)
pamada (class-16 gnomic singular third-person)
mwamada (class-18 gnomic singular third-person)
positive subject concord + -memada (perfect)
positive subject concord + -meshamada (already-form)
negative subject concord + -jamada (not-yet-form)
positive subject concord + -kimada (if-when-form)
positive subject concord + -sipomada (if-not-form)
positive subject concord + -kamade (consecutive subjunctive)
-nimada (first-person indicative object-concord singular)
-tumada (first-person indicative object-concord plural)
-kumada (indicative object-concord second-person singular)
-wamada (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-kumadeni (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-wamadeni (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-mmada (class-1 class-2 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-wamada (class-1 class-2 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-umada (class-3 class-4 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-imada (class-3 class-4 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-limada (class-5 class-6 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-yamada (class-5 class-6 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-kimada (class-7 class-8 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-vimada (class-7 class-8 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-imada (class-10 class-9 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-zimada (class-10 class-9 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-umada (class-11 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-kumada (class-15 class-17 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-pamada (class-16 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-mumada (class-18 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-jimada (indicative object-concord reflexive)
-madaye (class-1 class-2 object-concord relative singular)
-madao (class-1 class-2 object-concord plural relative)
-madao (class-3 class-4 object-concord relative singular)
-madayo (class-3 class-4 object-concord plural relative)
-madalo (class-5 class-6 object-concord relative singular)
-madayo (class-5 class-6 object-concord plural relative)
-madacho (class-7 class-8 object-concord relative singular)
-madavyo (class-7 class-8 object-concord plural relative)
-madayo (class-10 class-9 object-concord relative singular)
-madazo (class-10 class-9 object-concord plural relative)
-madao (class-11 object-concord relative singular)
-madako (class-15 class-17 object-concord relative singular)
-madapo (class-16 object-concord relative singular)
-madamo (class-18 object-concord relative singular)
-yemada (class-1 class-2 object-concord relative singular)
-omada (class-1 class-2 object-concord plural relative)
-omada (class-3 class-4 object-concord relative singular)
-yomada (class-3 class-4 object-concord plural relative)
-lomada (class-5 class-6 object-concord relative singular)
-yomada (class-5 class-6 object-concord plural relative)
-chomada (class-7 class-8 object-concord relative singular)
-vyomada (class-7 class-8 object-concord plural relative)
-yomada (class-10 class-9 object-concord relative singular)
-zomada (class-10 class-9 object-concord plural relative)
-omada (class-11 object-concord relative singular)
-komada (class-15 class-17 object-concord relative singular)
-pomada (class-16 object-concord relative singular)
-momada (class-18 object-concord relative singular)


blue flu

en-noun

blue flu (countable and uncountable, plural blue flus)

(informal) An industrial action taken by members of the police, claiming sickness en masse.


riotous

head

riotous (plural and weak singular riotouse)

riotouse (plural)
riotouse (singular weak)

English: riotous

Middle Scots: riotous

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman riotous; equivalent to rioten + -ous.


ghetto bird

Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third
Cuz I'm getting chased by the ghetto bird

1993, Ghetto Bird, Ice Cube, Lethal Injection

(slang, US, idiomatic) A police helicopter, specifically in the context of patrolling or searching impoverished, high-crime urban areas (the ghetto).


con artist

He's the FBI agent antagonist in Catch Me If You Can (2002) opposite a buoyantly charming young Leonardo DiCaprio as con artist Frank Abagnale, but his character is more of a determined cat to Leo's mouse than a real foil; he's simply a prim Eisenhower-era man with a job to do.

2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:

Leavers will be attracted to that story because it spares them the discomfort of admitting that they voted for a con, and then made a prime minister of the con artist.

2021 February 23, Rafael Behr, “Brexit is a machine to generate perpetual grievance. It's doing its job perfectly”, in The Guardian:

A person who defrauds or swindles others after first gaining their trust; a scam operator.


стрелка

ru-noun+

стре́лка • (strélka) f inan (genitive стре́лки, nominative plural стре́лки, genitive plural стре́лок, diminutive стре́лочка)

стре́лка (canonical)
strélka (romanization)
стре́лки (genitive)
стре́лки (nominative plural)
стре́лок (genitive plural)
стре́лочка (diminutive)
стре́лка (nominative singular)
стре́лки (nominative plural)
стре́лки (genitive singular)
стре́лок (genitive plural)
стре́лке (dative singular)
стре́лкам (dative plural)
стре́лку (accusative singular)
стре́лки (accusative plural)
стре́лкой (instrumental singular)
стре́лкою (instrumental singular)
стре́лками (instrumental plural)
стре́лке (prepositional singular)
стре́лках (plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: strelkka

Ru-стрелка.ogg

(забить стрелку) to arrange a meeting, to challenge/throw down the gauntlet, lit. «to score/drive in an arrow»

(criminal slang) business meeting for sorting things out


ГАИ

Госуда́рственная государственный#Russian

автомоби́льная автомобильный#Russian

инспе́кция инспекция#Russian

acronym of Госуда́рственная автомоби́льная инспе́кция (Gosudárstvennaja avtomobílʹnaja inspékcija): State Vehicle Inspection (State Patrol), road/traffic police


incident report

en-noun

incident report (plural incident reports)

(law enforcement) A commonly used description for law enforcement or help desk events.


genocidio

From Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) + -cidio, or geno- + -cidio.


rustler

(US, especially Western US, slang, dated) An alert, energetic, driving person.


種族滅絕

ㄓㄨㄥˇ ㄗㄨˊ ㄇㄧㄝˋ ㄐㄩㄝˊ

чжунцзу мецзюэ

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su³⁵ mi̯ɛ⁵¹ t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ³⁵ t͡sʊk̚² miːt̚² t͡syːt̚²/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su³⁵ mi̯ɛ⁵¹ t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ³⁵ t͡sʊk̚² miːt̚² t͡syːt̚²/


barney

Etymology unknown. Often incorrectly thought to be Cockney rhyming slang from Barney Rubble (“trouble”, from the character Barney Rubble on The Flintstones), it actually dates back to the 19th century and its origin is unknown.

unk

Etymology unknown

There goes that fuckin' Barney right now, with his fuckin' "skiin' trip." We should'a kicked that dude's ass.

1997, Damon, Matt, Affleck, Ben, Good Will Hunting, spoken by Morgan O'Mally (Casey Affleck):

(US dialect, Boston) A student at Harvard University.


SSP

senior superintendent
senior superintendent#English

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of senior superintendent. (a police rank)


slaying

en-noun

slaying (countable and uncountable, plural slayings)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-slaying.wav

The slaying of the civil rights activist brought a storm of protest.

Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin.

1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 17, verse 31:

Killing, especially the murder of a human.

घात

killing, especially the murder of a human


do time

en-verb

do time (third-person singular simple present does time, present participle doing time, simple past did time, past participle done time)

does time (present singular third-person)
doing time (participle present)
did time (past)
done time (participle past)

My wife is unavailable for three months, as she's doing time for fraud.

Yes, Virginia, now Santa's doing time
In a Federal prison for his infamous crime

1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:

(colloquial) To spend time in prison (as a prisoner) or in the military (as a servicemember).

if you can't do the time, don't do the crime


prone out

prone out (third-person singular simple present prones out, present participle proning out, simple past and past participle proned out)

prones out (present singular third-person)
proning out (participle present)
proned out (participle past)
proned out (past)

(transitive, law enforcement) To order or cause a person to lie prone on the ground, usually at gunpoint and to effect a high-risk arrest.


hot-wire

hot-wire (third-person singular simple present hot-wires, present participle hot-wiring, simple past and past participle hot-wired)

hot-wires (present singular third-person)
hot-wiring (participle present)
hot-wired (participle past)
hot-wired (past)

From hot + wire, with hot referring to electrical current.

(transitive, slang) To start an automobile engine by bypassing the ignition key wiring.


uttering

The girl using a fake ID to enter a bar was guilty of uttering.

If two jointly prepare counterfeit coin, and utter it in different shops apart from each other, but in concert, and intending to share the proceeds, the utterings of each are the joint utterings of both, and they may be convicted jointly.

1881, Ephraim Arnold Jacob, Robert Alexander Fisher., An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law:

(law) The crime of knowingly presenting forged documentation.


victimology

en-noun

victimology (countable and uncountable, plural victimologies)

From French victimologie. victim + -ology.

The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.

受害者學

the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims


fangi

is-noun

fangi m (genitive singular fanga, nominative plural fangar)

fanga (genitive singular)
fangar (nominative plural)
fangi (indefinite nominative singular)
fanginn (definite nominative singular)
fangar (indefinite nominative plural)
fangarnir (definite nominative plural)
fanga (accusative indefinite singular)
fangann (accusative definite singular)
fanga (accusative indefinite plural)
fangana (accusative definite plural)
fanga (dative indefinite singular)
fanganum (dative definite singular)
föngum (dative indefinite plural)
föngunum (dative definite plural)
fanga (genitive indefinite singular)
fangans (definite genitive singular)
fanga (genitive indefinite plural)
fanganna (definite genitive plural)

From Middle Low German vangen (“captive”), a past participle of vangen, vān (“to catch”), from Old Saxon fahan.


speeding

We were overtaken on the inside by a speeding motorcyclist.

The NTSB said on Tuesday that the 2022 North Las Vegas crash highlights the need for intelligent speed assistance technology and countermeasures including interlock program for repeat speeding offenders. National Transportation Safety Board Calls For Speed-Limiting Tech in Cars, Road track, 15 Nov 2023

Specifically, travelling at an illegal speed (of vehicles, motorists).


obs

But I now knew I was under obs by the Gardai as well as by GMP.

2017, Jimmy Donnelly, Jimmy The Weed: Inside the Quality Street Gang:

Had you under obs for three weeks.

2018, Paige Elizabeth Turner, Clock Face of Ills:

(law enforcement, slang) Police observation.


morþ

morþ (nominative singular)
morþ (nominative plural)
morþ (accusative singular)
morþ (accusative plural)
morþes (genitive singular)
morþa (genitive plural)
morþe (dative singular)
morþum (dative plural)

Middle English: morth, murth

Scots: murth

English: murth

From Proto-West Germanic *morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead”).
Cognate with Old Saxon morð, Dutch moord, Old High German mord (German Mord), Old Norse morð. The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal”) (earlier *μροτός (*mrotós)), Latin mortis (genitive of mors (“death”)), Old Church Slavonic мрѣти (mrěti) (Russian мере́ть (merétʹ)), Lithuanian mirtis (“death”). Compare Old English morþor.

cog

genitive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">mors</i> (“death”)


intendente

es-noun

intendente m or f by sense (plural intendentes, feminine intendente or intendenta, feminine plural intendentes or intendentas)

intendentes (plural)
intendente (feminine)
intendenta (feminine)
intendentes (feminine plural)
intendentas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the common Bourbon dynasty for various functions.

(Ecuador, Mexico, law enforcement) inspector


mafioso

pt-adj

mafioso (feminine mafiosa, masculine plural mafiosos, feminine plural mafiosas, metaphonic)

mafiosa (feminine)
mafiosos (masculine plural)
mafiosas (feminine plural)
metaphonic (feminine plural)


Mord

de-noun

Mord m (strong, genitive Mordes or Mords, plural Morde)

Mordes (genitive)
Mords (genitive)
Morde (plural)
Mord (nominative singular)
Morde (definite nominative plural)
Mordes (genitive singular)
Mords (genitive singular)
Morde (definite genitive plural)
Mord (dative singular)
Morde (dative singular)
Morden (dative definite plural)
Mord (accusative singular)
Morde (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German mort, from Old High German mord, from Proto-West Germanic *morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą. Cognate with Dutch moord, English murth, Swedish mord, Finnish murha. Also related with English murder, French meurtre.

Der Mord ist, wie jedem gebildeten Staatsanwalt bekannt, eine Tat, die in der äußersten Ekstase und mit der kältesten Roheit begangen wird.

1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 40:

Murder is, as known to every educated prosecutor, an act that is committed in utmost ecstasy and with the coldest brutality.


one-time

He was the one-time president of the club.

His one-time investment in a brickyard had put the idea into his head—an idea that he decided was a good one, for it enabled him to suggest that she ride along with him to inspect the quarry.

1910, Jack London, chapter XIII, in Burning Daylight:

Pollyanna never doubted now that John Pendleton was her Aunt Polly's one-time lover; […]

1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 18, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:

The old Ramsgate Harbour station of the one-time South Eastern Railway was a case in point, as also the stations in the Isle of Wight that you name, such as Ventnor West.

1945 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Station Turntables”, in Railway Magazine, page 241, reply to J. A. Drew:

Has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos – not to say mustard gas?

2017 April 13, Adam Forrest, “The death of diesel: has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos?”, in The Guardian:

Of or pertaining to a specific period of time in the past, not extending to the present.

някогашен

of or pertaining to a specific time in the past


þeof

þēof (canonical masculine)
þēof (nominative singular)
þēofas (nominative plural)
þēof (accusative singular)
þēofas (accusative plural)
þēofes (genitive singular)
þēofa (genitive plural)
þēofe (dative singular)
þēofum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: thef, theef, theff, thyef, þef, þeef, þief, þyef, þeof, thefe
English: thief
Scots: thef, theif, thief

From Proto-Germanic *þeubaz. Cognate with Old Frisian thiāf, Old Saxon thiof, Old High German diob, Old Norse þjófr, Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (þiufs).


губа

ru-noun+

губа́ • (gubá) f inan (genitive губы́, uncountable)

губа́ (canonical)
gubá (romanization)
губы́ (genitive)
губа́ (nominative singular)
губы́ (genitive singular)
губе́ (dative singular)
губу́ (accusative singular)
губо́й (instrumental singular)
губо́ю (instrumental singular)
губе́ (prepositional singular)
губа́ (dated nominative singular)
губы́ (dated genitive singular)
губѣ́ (dated dative singular)
губу́ (accusative dated singular)
губо́й (dated instrumental singular)
губо́ю (dated instrumental singular)
губѣ́ (dated prepositional singular)

Shortening of губва́хта (gubváxta), a corruption of гауптва́хта (gauptváxta).


крыша

кры́ша • (krýša) f inan (genitive кры́ши, nominative plural кры́ши, genitive plural крыш, diminutive кры́шка or кры́шечка)

кры́ша (canonical)
krýša (romanization)
кры́ши (genitive)
кры́ши (nominative plural)
крыш (genitive plural)
кры́шка (diminutive)
кры́шечка (diminutive)
кры́ша (nominative singular)
кры́ши (nominative plural)
кры́ши (genitive singular)
кры́ш (genitive plural)
кры́ше (dative singular)
кры́шам (dative plural)
кры́шу (accusative singular)
кры́ши (accusative plural)
кры́шей (instrumental singular)
кры́шею (instrumental singular)
кры́шами (instrumental plural)
кры́ше (prepositional singular)
кры́шах (plural prepositional)
кры́ша (dated nominative singular)
кры́ши (dated nominative plural)
кры́ши (dated genitive singular)
кры́шъ (dated genitive plural)
кры́шѣ (dated dative singular)
кры́шамъ (dated dative plural)
кры́шу (accusative dated singular)
кры́ши (accusative dated plural)
кры́шей (dated instrumental singular)
кры́шею (dated instrumental singular)
кры́шами (dated instrumental plural)
кры́шѣ (dated prepositional singular)
кры́шахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Armenian: կռիշ (kṙiš)

→ Azerbaijani: krişa, krışa

→ Georgian: კრიშა (ḳriša)

→ Polish: krysza

Inherited from Old East Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Slavic *kryša, from *kryti (“to cover, hide”) + *-ša (< *-sja).

Вре́мя от вре́мени к ларьку́ подходи́ли начина́ющие банди́ты и лома́ющимися голоса́ми тре́бовали де́нег за свою́ кры́шу.

1999, Виктор Пелевин, Generation «П», Вагриус; English translation from Andrew Bromfield, transl., Homo Zapiens, Penguin Books, 2000:

From time to time novice bandits would come up to the kiosk and demand money for their protection in squeaky, still-breaking voices.

Vrémja ot vrémeni k larʹkú podxodíli načinájuščije bandíty i lomájuščimisja golosámi trébovali déneg za svojú krýšu.

(criminal slang) someone who provides protection or cover; the protection that is provided


varas

varas (nominative singular)
varkaat (nominative plural)
varkaan (genitive singular)
varkain (genitive plural)
varasta (partitive singular)
varast (partitive singular)
varkaita (partitive plural)
varkaja (partitive plural)
varkaasse (illative singular)
varkaisse (illative plural)
varkaas (inessive singular)
varkais (inessive plural)
varkaast (elative singular)
varkaist (elative plural)
varkaalle (allative singular)
varkaille (allative plural)
varkaal (adessive singular)
varkail (adessive plural)
varkaalt (ablative singular)
varkailt (ablative plural)
varkaaks (singular translative)
varkaiks (plural translative)
varkaanna (essive singular)
varkaan (essive singular)
varkainna (essive plural)
varkain (essive plural)
varkaant (exessive singular)
varkaint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *vargas. Cognates include Finnish varas and Estonian varas.

Siit kunigas lähetti vanhemman poikaha vahtii, eik tapajais varasta.

1885, “Sprachproben: Der goldene Vogel”, in Volmari Porkka, editor, Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte:

Then the king sent his oldest son to the guard, so that he could catch the thief.


gumball

The spiky seedpod of the sweet gum tree.


妨害風化罪

ㄈㄤˊ ㄏㄞˋ ㄈㄥ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄗㄨㄟˋ

фанхай фэнхуа цзуй

/fɑŋ³⁵ xaɪ̯⁵¹ fɤŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

(law) crime concerning morality (such as adultery, rape etc.)


Miranda

Ernesto Miranda
Miranda
Miranda v. Arizona

From the case Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), from the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian habitational surname Miranda of Ernesto Miranda.


shimmer

(crime) A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.


policija

policija (nominative singular)
policiju (accusative singular)
policijas (genitive singular)
policijai (dative singular)
policiju (instrumental singular)
policijā (locative singular)
policija (singular vocative)

policijas iecirknis

dienēt policijā

policijas priekšnieks

drošības policija

politiskā policija

kriminālā policija, kriminālpolicija

slepenā policija, slepenpolicija

policijas stunda


policija

lt-noun

polìcija f (plural polìcijos) stress pattern 1

polìcija (canonical feminine stress-pattern-1)
polìcijos (plural)
polìcija (nominative singular)
polìcijos (nominative plural)
polìcijos (genitive singular)
polìcijų (genitive plural)
polìcijai (dative singular)
polìcijoms (dative plural)
polìciją (accusative singular)
polìcijas (accusative plural)
polìcija (instrumental singular)
polìcijomis (instrumental plural)
polìcijoje (locative singular)
polìcijose (locative plural)
polìcija (singular vocative)
polìcijos (plural vocative)

/poːˈlʲɪt͡sʲɪjɐ/

Borrowed from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολῑτείᾱ (polīteíā), via Russian полиция (policija).

(collectively) police officers (the people who work in this institution)


Meineid

de-noun

Meineid m (strong, genitive Meineides or Meineids, plural Meineide)

Meineides (genitive)
Meineids (genitive)
Meineide (plural)
Meineid (nominative singular)
Meineide (definite nominative plural)
Meineides (genitive singular)
Meineids (genitive singular)
Meineide (definite genitive plural)
Meineid (dative singular)
Meineide (dative singular)
Meineiden (dative definite plural)
Meineid (accusative singular)
Meineide (accusative definite plural)

[ˈmaɪ̯nˌʔaɪ̯t]

From Middle High German meineit, from Old High German meineid, from Proto-West Germanic *mainaiþ, from Proto-Germanic *mainaiþaz.

einen Meineid leisten/schwören

(also law) a perjury, a deliberately false oath about something in the past


hot property

en-noun

hot property (usually uncountable, plural hot properties)

From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot check (“fraudulent check”).


pay-off

The prison break never could have succeeded if it hadn't been for multiple pay-offs to various corrupt officers.


Sitte

Sitte (genitive)
Sitten (plural)
Sitte (nominative singular)
Sitten (definite nominative plural)
Sitte (genitive singular)
Sitten (definite genitive plural)
Sitte (dative singular)
Sitten (dative definite plural)
Sitte (accusative singular)
Sitten (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German site, from Old High German situ, from Proto-West Germanic *sidu, from Proto-Germanic *siduz.

(law enforcement, informal) Short for Sittendezernat, Sittenpolizei (“vice, vice department”).


kleptocracy

WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.

2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by greed.


internal affairs

(US, law enforcement) A division of a law enforcement agency investigating incidents and plausible suspicions of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force.


Wachtel

de-noun

Wachtel f (genitive Wachtel, plural Wachteln)

Wachtel (genitive)
Wachteln (plural)
Wachtel (nominative singular)
Wachteln (definite nominative plural)
Wachtel (genitive singular)
Wachteln (definite genitive plural)
Wachtel (dative singular)
Wachteln (dative definite plural)
Wachtel (accusative singular)
Wachteln (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German wachtel, wahtel, from Old High German wahtala, wahtila, from Proto-West Germanic *hwahtlā (“quail”).

(slang, derogatory) screw (i.e., prison guard)


crime of passion

en-noun

crime of passion (plural crimes of passion)

There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again.

2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones):

(law, criminology) A crime, typically a violent crime such as assault or murder, committed against a loved one because of sudden jealous rage or heartbreak rather than as a premeditated act.

crim passional

crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak


nightstick

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-nightstick.wav

(US, law enforcement) A long, narrow, polelike club carried by police and security personnel, for use in self-defense.


GBH

grievous bodily harm
grievous bodily harm#English

(British, law) Initialism of grievous bodily harm.


police force

He joined the police force a long time ago, when he lived in Virginia.

(law enforcement) Any police organization; a constabulary.


attorney general

attorney general (plural attorneys general or attorney generals)

attorneys general (plural)
attorney generals (plural)

From Anglo-Norman/Law French, (modern French avocat général or procureur général), hence the unusual order of adjective following noun, instead of idiomatic English *general attorney. Compare court martial, notary public, secretary general, surgeon general.

Janet Reno was US Attorney General under Bill Clinton.

If you do wrongfully ſeize Herford's right, / call in his Letters Patents that he hath / By his Atturneyes generall, to ſue[…]

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 29, column 2:

A major government officer throughout the English-speaking world, generally responsible for interpreting the law for the head of government and executive department and functioning as chief prosecutor, with the ability to bring civil and criminal actions directly.


white-collar crime

white-collar crime (countable and uncountable, plural white-collar crimes)

Introduced by American sociologist Edwin Sutherland.

Fraud and embezzlement are examples of white-collar crime.

Non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money.


constabulary

From mediaeval Latin conestabularia, a noun use of the feminine version of conestabularius, from Latin constabulus, from comes stabuli, literally ‘master of the stables’.


headsman

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-headsman.wav

From Middle English heddysman, equivalent to head + -s- + -man. Cognate with Scots hedisman, heidisman (“head man; chief; commander”). Compare also Danish høvedsmand (“captain”), Swedish hövitsman (“captain”), Icelandic höfuðsmaður (“captain”), German Hauptmann (“captain”).

(obsolete or Scotland) A chief person; a head man

And of those base-minded jesters or buffons, some have beene seene, that even at the point of death would never leave their jesting and scoffing. He whom the heads-man threw off from the Gallowes cried out, ‘Row the Gally,’ which was his ordinarie by-word.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

And made him Headsman, for we said, / "Who's next to be decapited / Cannot cut off another's head / Until he's cut his own off[…]"

1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.

(mining, historical) A labourer in a colliery who transports the coal from the workings to the horseway, and who is oftentimes assisted by a younger worker called a foal.

(nautical) One in command of a whaling vessel.


patrolman

On September 9, when a solitary Japanese patrolman tried to curtail the work of five Taiwanese who were cutting trees from a windbreak (in Anting settlement, Sinhua district), the accused responded "Taiwan is not Japan's land. Why are you stopping us?"

2006, Ping-hui Liao, David Der-wei Wang, Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=pHlwcjwt7fEC&pg=PT391:

A police officer, especially a junior officer assigned patrol duty instead of detection or supervision.


twoc

en-verb

twoc (third-person singular simple present twocs, present participle twoccing or twocking, simple past and past participle twocced or twocked)

twocs (present singular third-person)
twoccing (participle present)
twocking (participle present)
twocced (participle past)
twocced (past)
twocked (participle past)
twocked (past)

From the legal term TWOC (“taken without owner's consent”).

Most familiarly, juveniles twoc cars. But, I suggest, readers twoc writings.

1994 Winter, John Hartley, “Twoccing and joyreading”, in Terence Hawkes, editor, Textual Practice, volume 8, number 3, page 2:

Joyriders are generally introduced to ‘twoccing’ by friends and it is seen as exciting, with many recounting the thrill, excitement and ‘buzz’ involved.

1998, Hazel Croall, Crime and Society in Britain, Longman, →ISBN, page 220:

James Harris also left a note saying "North Shields crew, if you don't keep it locked, it will get twocked" on the victim's TV

2015 June 22, Sara Nichol, “North Shields window cleaner poured bleach over victim's clothes when he burgled her house”, in Chronicle Live:

Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus.

2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171:

A frustrated Kim, in a bright yellow waistcoat that looked like someone had made a hi-viz tabard out of Big Bird, twocked Vincent’s car and had a high octane 2mph crash with Dot Branning.

2016 October 18, Ian Hyland, “EastEnders has been a load of rubbish - but Kim's driving test could change that”, in Daily Mirror:

[The sentence was imposed in August by Judge Passfield, after he had pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without consent.]

2023 November 28, Gareth Crickmer, “Sunderland man gets banned from drinking alcohol after twocking car, then gets caught out by ankle tag”, in Sunderland Echo:

(UK regional, slang) To steal (especially a car).


dropper

Thus an American police chief discussing the 'cheque-droppers', then peculiar to his side of the Atlantic, who were taking a toll estimated at […] Over the years, forgery has tended to be an amateur operation — a crime of opportunity.

1969, Criminologist, number 11, page 123:

[…] 'dropper' — the person who presents the cheque at the bank or elsewhere — who takes the risk. […] On the other hand, 'kite droppers' usually work in teams.

1973, Arthur J. La Bern, Noël C. Browne, Haigh: the mind of a murderer, page 39:

(slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.


schmuggeln

de-verb

schmuggeln (weak, third-person singular present schmuggelt, past tense schmuggelte, past participle geschmuggelt, auxiliary haben)

schmuggelt (present singular third-person)
schmuggelte (past)
geschmuggelt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
schmuggeln (infinitive)
schmuggelnd (participle present)
geschmuggelt (participle past)
schmuggle (first-person indicative present singular)
schmuggele (first-person indicative present singular)
schmuggel (first-person indicative present singular)
schmuggeln (first-person indicative plural present)
schmuggele (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
schmuggle (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
schmuggeln (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
schmuggelst (indicative present second-person singular)
schmuggelt (indicative plural present second-person)
schmuggelest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
schmugglest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
schmuggelet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
schmugglet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
schmuggelt (indicative present singular third-person)
schmuggeln (indicative plural present third-person)
schmuggele (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
schmuggle (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
schmuggeln (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
schmuggelte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
schmuggelten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
schmuggelte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
schmuggelten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
schmuggeltest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
schmuggeltet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
schmuggeltest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
schmuggeltet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
schmuggelte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
schmuggelten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
schmuggelte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
schmuggelten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
schmuggle (imperative second-person singular)
schmuggel (imperative second-person singular)
schmuggele (imperative second-person singular)
schmuggelt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe geschmuggelt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben geschmuggelt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe geschmuggelt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben geschmuggelt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast geschmuggelt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt geschmuggelt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest geschmuggelt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet geschmuggelt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat geschmuggelt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben geschmuggelt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe geschmuggelt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben geschmuggelt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte geschmuggelt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten geschmuggelt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte geschmuggelt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten geschmuggelt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest geschmuggelt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet geschmuggelt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest geschmuggelt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet geschmuggelt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte geschmuggelt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten geschmuggelt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte geschmuggelt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten geschmuggelt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
schmuggeln werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde schmuggeln (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden schmuggeln (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest schmuggeln (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet schmuggeln (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde schmuggeln (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden schmuggeln (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde schmuggeln (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden schmuggeln (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde schmuggeln (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden schmuggeln (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst schmuggeln (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet schmuggeln (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest schmuggeln (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet schmuggeln (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird schmuggeln (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden schmuggeln (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde schmuggeln (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden schmuggeln (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
geschmuggelt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde geschmuggelt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden geschmuggelt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde geschmuggelt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden geschmuggelt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde geschmuggelt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden geschmuggelt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden geschmuggelt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

Borrowed from Low German smuggeln, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *smeuganą (“to creep; slip through or into”). Cognate with English smuggle, also a borrowing.


tira

From tirar (“to remove”), from Old Galician-Portuguese tirar, of uncertain origin.

(slang, law enforcement) cop; police officer


reformatory

/ɹəˈfɔɹməˌtɔɹi/

/ɹɪˈfɔː(ɹ)mətəɹi/

/ɹɪˈfɔː(ɹ)mətɹi/

It was the nicest-looking property Elwood had ever seen—a real school, a good one, not the forbidding reformatory he’d conjured the last few weeks.

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 45:

A prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school.


borrowing

(slang, crime) Slang term for shoplifting.


reform school

And through this one small error of judgment, Elwood’s life is changed when he is sent to a reform school called Nickel.

2019 July 26, Aminatta Forna, “The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead review”, in The Guardian:

(dated) A penal institution for juveniles, especially males.


organized crime

有組織犯罪

crimes carried out by these organizations

Organized crime is largely responsible for the nation’s illicit drug trafficking.

A large criminal organization, or a group of such organizations, that deals in illegal goods and services.

Organized crime has dramatically increased in our neighbourhood.

The crimes perpetrated by those organizations.


kife

en-verb

kife (third-person singular simple present kifes, present participle kifing, simple past and past participle kifed)

kifes (present singular third-person)
kifing (participle present)
kifed (participle past)
kifed (past)


ladrón

es-noun

ladrón m (plural ladrones, feminine ladrona, feminine plural ladronas)

ladrones (plural)
ladrona (feminine)
ladronas (feminine plural)

Chavacano: ladron

Palenquero: lairón

Papiamentu: ladron

→ English: ladrone, ladron

Inherited from Old Spanish ladron, from Latin latrōnem.

piensa el ladrón que todos son de su condición

quien roba a un ladrón, tiene cien años de perdón


rabo

eo-head

rabo (accusative singular rabon, plural raboj, accusative plural rabojn)

rabon (accusative singular)
raboj (plural)
rabojn (accusative plural)


MPS

Metropolitan Police Service
w:en:Metropolitan Police

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of Metropolitan Police Service.


gendarme

en-noun

gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)

Borrowed from French gendarme, from plural gendarmes, a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.

The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.

2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170:

The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.

1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118:

The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.

1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64:

Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.

2013, Joe Kelsey, Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, →ISBN, page 259:


gendarme

→ English: gendarme

→ Franco-Provençal: g·endârme

→ Italian: gendarme

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: ژاندارمه (jandarma), ժանտարմա (jandarma) — Armeno-Turkish
Turkish: jandarma
→ Armenian: ժանտարմա (žantarma)
→ Laz: ჯანდამა (candama), ჟანდამა (jandama) — Arkabi, ჟანდარმა (jandarma) — Akçakoca, ჯანდარმა (candarma)

→ Romanian: jandarm

→ Russian: жандарм (žandarm)
→ Armenian: ժանդարմ (žandarm)
→ Georgian: ჟანდარმი (žandarmi)
→ Uyghur: ژاندارما (zhandarma)

→ Persian: ژاندرم (žândarm)

Singular extracted from plural gendarmes, which arose as a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties


gendarme

es-noun

gendarme m or f by sense (plural gendarmes)


corrections officer

en-noun

corrections officer (plural corrections officers)

Frank was proud of the fact that in all his years as a corrections officer, he had never been assaulted by an inmate.


rehabilitation

rehabilitation (countable and uncountable, plural rehabilitations)

/ˌɹiː.əˌbɪl.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/

[ˌɹiː.əˌbɪl.ɪˈteɪ.ʃn̩]

From Middle French réhabilitation, from Medieval Latin rehabilitatio.

The working life span of a passenger carriage, on average, is between 30 and 35 years, so a steady replacement takes place quite naturally. The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily reckoned, for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.

1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 250:

Maybe now it should be clearer why Louis van Gaal has been telling anyone who cares to listen they should not be surprised if Manchester United’s rehabilitation takes longer than they would ideally like.

August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk

The process of rehabilitating somebody or something.


rehabilitate

en-verb

rehabilitate (third-person singular simple present rehabilitates, present participle rehabilitating, simple past and past participle rehabilitated)

rehabilitates (present singular third-person)
rehabilitating (participle present)
rehabilitated (participle past)
rehabilitated (past)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin rehabilitātus, perfect passive participle of Latin rehabilitō.

lbor

(transitive, criminology) To restore to (a criminal etc.) the necessary training and education to allow for a successful reintegration into society; to retrain.


frosting

en-noun

frosting (countable and uncountable, plural frostings)

“[…] Cities aren’t like frosted cake — and, anyhow, even the cake didn’t keep very well. I tried it, and it dried up, ’specially the frosting. I reckon the time to take frosting and good times is while they are going; so I want to see all I can now while I’m here.”

1915, Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up, The Page Company:

(US) Icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.


dragnet

From drag + net, probably based on the model of Middle English draynet, dreynett (“dragnet”), Old English dræġnet, dræġnett (“dragnet”), equivalent to dray + net. Cognate with Swedish dragnät, Norwegian dragnett, from Icelandic dragnet.

The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:

(law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law enforcement personnel undertaken in order to capture suspects.

eftersøgning

Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.


dragnet

en-verb

dragnet (third-person singular simple present dragnets, present participle dragnetting, simple past and past participle dragnetted)

dragnets (present singular third-person)
dragnetting (participle present)
dragnetted (participle past)
dragnetted (past)

In fact, Carty was not the man, but, after a police swoop had dragnetted twenty men suspected of having taken part in the business, he was lodged in Sligo jail and accused of this violence to the lady.

2010, Florence O'Donoghue, IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921, →ISBN, page 164:

A May Day anti-capitalist protest last year in Seattle saw clashes between police and protesters, and the FBI had been dragnetting potential anarchists.

2013 September 19, Audrey Black, “Targeting Oppression”, in Eugene Weekly:

(law enforcement, transitive) To undertake heightened efforts to catch a suspect.


辻斬り

辻斬り (canonical)
tsujigiri (romanization)

[t͡sɨʑiɡʲiɾʲi]

辻 (tsuji, “street”) + 斬り (kiri), from 斬る (kiru, “cut, murder”).

The killing of a passerby on the road at night, in order to test the sharpness of a sword, or to improve one’s skill.


scalawag

Of obscure origin, perhaps from the name of the Shetland village of Scalloway (from Old Norse Skálavágr), known for its dwarf ponies and dwarf cattle.

(Philippines, law enforcement, military) rogue police; rogue military personnel


serve time

serve time (third-person singular simple present serves time, present participle serving time, simple past and past participle served time)

serves time (present singular third-person)
serving time (participle present)
served time (participle past)
served time (past)

(idiomatic) To be confined in prison or a similar institution, typically for wrongdoing that violates the law.


meurtre

From Middle French meurtre (“murder”) from Old French murtre, mordre (“murder”) (compare Medieval Latin murdrum (“murder”)), both from Frankish *murþar (“murder”) from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“murder, killing, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“murder, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”).
Akin to Old High German mord (“murder”) (German Mord), Old High German murdren (“to kill, murder”) (German mördern (“to murder”)), Old English morþor (“death, murder”), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”). More at murder.


fraude

English: fraud

From Old French fraude, itself borrowed from Latin fraus, fraudem.

Deceptiveness, fraudulence; a tendency to be fraudulent or deceptive.


confidence trickster

en-noun

confidence trickster (plural confidence tricksters)

Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust, a con man or con artist.


halcón

Inherited from Late Latin falcōnem, probably of Germanic origin. Doublet of falcón.

falcon (diurnal bird of prey in Falconidae and especially in Falco)


birdlime

(rhyming slang) Time; a jail term, the serving of a prison sentence.


徒刑

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (徒刑):
* → Japanese: 徒(と)刑(けい) (tokei)
* → Korean: 도형(徒刑) (dohyeong)
* → Vietnamese: đồ hình (徒刑)

/tʰu³⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵/

/tʰou̯²¹ jɪŋ²¹/

/tɔ²⁴⁻²² hiɪŋ²⁴/

/tɔ¹³⁻²² hiɪŋ¹³/

/tʰu³⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵/

/tʰou̯²¹ jɪŋ²¹/

/tɔ²⁴⁻²² hiɪŋ²⁴/

/tɔ¹³⁻²² hiɪŋ¹³/


precinct

From Middle English precinct, precincte, early 15th century, in sense of “district for government purposes”, from Medieval Latin precinctum, alternative form of praecinctum (“enclosure, boundary line”), neuter singular of praecinctus, perfect passive participle of Latin praecingō (“surround, gird”), from prae (“before”) + cingō (“surround, encircle”), from which also cinch.
Cognate to Italian precingere (“to encircle”).

(US, law enforcement) A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.


vang

vangi (genitive)
vangi (partitive)
vang (nominative singular)
vangid (nominative plural)
vang (accusative nominative singular)
vangid (accusative nominative plural)
vangi (accusative genitive singular)
vangid (accusative genitive plural)
vangi (genitive singular)
vangide (genitive plural)
vangi (partitive singular)
vange (partitive plural)
vangisid (partitive plural)
vangi (illative singular)
vangisse (illative singular)
vangidesse (illative plural)
vangesse (illative plural)
vangis (inessive singular)
vangides (inessive plural)
vanges (inessive plural)
vangist (elative singular)
vangidest (elative plural)
vangest (elative plural)
vangile (allative singular)
vangidele (allative plural)
vangele (allative plural)
vangil (adessive singular)
vangidel (adessive plural)
vangel (adessive plural)
vangilt (ablative singular)
vangidelt (ablative plural)
vangelt (ablative plural)
vangiks (singular translative)
vangideks (plural translative)
vangeks (plural translative)
vangini (singular terminative)
vangideni (plural terminative)
vangina (essive singular)
vangidena (essive plural)
vangita (abessive singular)
vangideta (abessive plural)
vangiga (comitative singular)
vangidega (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Middle Low German vangen or Swedish fånge.


Stockholm syndrome

en-verb

Stockholm syndrome (third-person singular simple present Stockholm syndromes, present participle Stockholm syndroming, simple past and past participle Stockholm syndromed)

Stockholm syndromes (present singular third-person)
Stockholm syndroming (participle present)
Stockholm syndromed (participle past)
Stockholm syndromed (past)

Calque of Swedish Norrmalmstorgssyndromet. Named after the robbery of Kreditbanken at the Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm, Sweden in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28, 1973. Originally, this term was directly translated from Swedish Norrmalmstorgssyndromet as the Norrmalmstorg syndrome, but later Norrmalmstorg was replaced with Stockholm, a word far more commonly known outside Sweden.

calque

The girls, it turns out, found the experience oddly positive, and not because they were brainwashed or Stockholm syndromed.

2015 July 17, Sarah Lyall, “Review: In ’Pretty Is,’ Grown Friends Recall Being Kidnapped”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-16:

Eventually, you Stockholm Syndromed yourself into believing that what happened to the Bills mattered to your life. Off the top of my head, I can still list more members of the 1990-93 Super Bowl-averse Bills than kids in my Grade 8 class.

2021 January 17, Cathal Kelly, “The curious case of all the Bills fans who are not from Buffalo”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, O.N.: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-14:

Britannia's is the best because they understand that a bunny is as much a feat of engineering as cooking. The quarter loaf of bread must, must be of the generic, mass-produced sort (not a farmhouse loaf, definitely not a milk bread, just standard unsliced white), with the light crust a dam wall holding in a reservoir of rich mutton curry that's Stockholm-syndroming massive potato halves, the sauce riveted with cloves and singing to the tune of ginger and curry leaves, the whole edible edifice capped with a dome built of the belly of the bread.

2022 March 6, “AA Gill Award winner 2022: introducing Sanjiv Mistry”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-22:

(transitive, informal) To cause someone to become affected by Stockholm syndrome.


police station

When the ballots were opened on 19 November, Hsu Hsin-liang’s supporters at a polling station in Chungli City suspected fraud. As the crowd swelled to approximately a thousand, rioting erupted. One protester was killed and the Chungli police station was burned.

1999, Shelley Rigger, “Political reform under Chiang Ching-kuo (1972-1988)”, in Politics in Taiwan: Voting for democracy, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:

In trying to stop him from exploiting more children, I was ensuring my parents and my siblings would be ostracised. She begged me not to go to the police station.

2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian:

(law enforcement) A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.


money laundering

Shut up! Shut up! What is this charity!? You’re kids! You can’t fucking drive! What money laundering scheme are you operating!?

2016 September 25, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Scandals”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 23, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

The act of engaging in transactions designed to obscure the origin of money, especially money that has been obtained illegally.

geldwassery

act of obscuring the origin of money that has been obtained illegally


puerco

es-noun

puerco m (plural puercos, feminine puerca, feminine plural puercas)

puercos (plural)
puerca (feminine)
puercas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Spanish puerco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).
The "police officer" slang sense is apparently a semantic loan from English pig.

inh

(slang, derogatory, Mexico) police officer; "pig"


gangbuster

A law enforcement officer who specializes in disrupting organized crime.


被害

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (被害):
* → Japanese: 被(ひ)害(がい) (higai)
* → Korean: 피해(被害) (pihae)

/peɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ xaɪ̯⁵¹/

/pei̯²² hɔːi̯²²/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hai²²/

/pi⁴¹⁻²² hai⁴¹/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hai²²/

/pi³³⁻¹¹ hai³³/

/pi³³⁻²¹ hai³³/

/peɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ xaɪ̯⁵¹/

/pei̯²² hɔːi̯²²/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hai²²/

/pi⁴¹⁻²² hai⁴¹/

/pi²²⁻²¹ hai²²/

/pi³³⁻¹¹ hai³³/

/pi³³⁻²¹ hai³³/


linchar

es-verb

linchar (first-person singular present lincho, first-person singular preterite linché, past participle linchado)

lincho (first-person present singular)
linché (first-person preterite singular)
linchado (participle past)
linchar (infinitive)
linchando (gerund)
linchado (masculine participle past singular)
linchada (feminine participle past singular)
linchados (masculine participle past plural)
linchadas (feminine participle past plural)
lincho (first-person indicative present singular)
linchas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
linchás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
lincha (indicative present singular third-person)
linchamos (first-person indicative plural present)
lincháis (indicative plural present second-person)
linchan (indicative plural present third-person)
linchaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
linchabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
linchaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
linchábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
linchabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
linchaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
linché (first-person indicative preterite singular)
linchaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
linchó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
linchamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
linchasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
lincharon (indicative plural preterite third-person)
lincharé (first-person future indicative singular)
lincharás (future indicative second-person singular)
linchará (future indicative singular third-person)
lincharemos (first-person future indicative plural)
lincharéis (future indicative plural second-person)
lincharán (future indicative plural third-person)
lincharía (conditional first-person indicative singular)
lincharías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
lincharía (conditional indicative singular third-person)
lincharíamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
lincharíais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
lincharían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
linche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
linches (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
linchés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
linche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
linchemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
linchéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
linchen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
linchara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
lincharas (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
linchara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
lincháramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
lincharais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
lincharan (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
linchase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
linchases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
linchase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
linchásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
linchaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
linchasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
linchare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
linchares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
linchare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
lincháremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
linchareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
lincharen (future plural subjunctive third-person)
lincha (imperative informal second-person singular)
linchá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
linche (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
linche (imperative singular third-person)
linchemos (first-person imperative plural)
linchad (imperative plural second-person)
linchen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
linchen (imperative plural third-person)
linches (imperative negative second-person singular)
linche (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
linche (imperative negative singular third-person)
linchemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
linchéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
linchen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
linchen (imperative negative plural third-person)
lincharme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
lincharte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
lincharle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
lincharse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
lincharnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
lincharos (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
lincharles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
lincharse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
lincharme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
lincharte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
lincharlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
lincharla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
lincharse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
lincharnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
lincharos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
lincharlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
lincharlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
lincharse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
linchándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
linchándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
linchándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
linchándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
linchándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
linchándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
linchándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
linchándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
linchándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
linchándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
linchándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
linchándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
linchándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
linchándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
linchándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
linchándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
linchándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
linchándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
línchame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
línchate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
línchale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
línchanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
línchales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
línchame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
línchate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
línchalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
línchala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
línchanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
línchalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
línchalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
linchame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
linchate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
linchale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
linchanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
linchales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
linchame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
linchate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
linchalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
linchala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
linchanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
linchalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
linchalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
líncheme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
línchele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
línchese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
línchenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
líncheles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
líncheme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
línchelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
línchela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
línchese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
línchenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
línchelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
línchelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
linchémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
linchémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
linchémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
linchémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
linchémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
linchémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
linchémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
linchémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
linchémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
linchémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
linchémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
linchémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
linchadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
linchadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
linchadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
linchaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
linchadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
linchadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
linchadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
linchadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
linchadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
linchaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
linchadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
linchadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
línchenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
línchenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
línchennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
línchenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
línchense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
línchenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
línchenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
línchenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
línchennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
línchenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
línchenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
línchense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

[lĩnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]


bootlegger

From bootleg + -er. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, derived from the smugglers' custom of hiding packages of valuables in the legs of their large sea-boots when dodging the king's coastguardsmen.

intellectual property
intellectual property

One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

незако́нный торго́вец спиртны́ми напи́тками


bootlegger

fr-noun

bootlegger m (plural bootleggers, feminine bootleggeuse)

bootleggers (plural)
bootleggeuse (feminine)


violentar

pt-verb

violentar (first-person singular present violento, first-person singular preterite violentei, past participle violentado)

violento (first-person present singular)
violentei (first-person preterite singular)
violentado (participle past)
violentar (impersonal infinitive)
violentar (first-person infinitive singular)
violentares (infinitive second-person singular)
violentar (infinitive singular third-person)
violentarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
violentardes (infinitive plural second-person)
violentarem (infinitive plural third-person)
violentando (gerund)
violentado (masculine participle past singular)
violentados (masculine participle past plural)
violentada (feminine participle past singular)
violentadas (feminine participle past plural)
violento (first-person indicative present singular)
violentas (indicative present second-person singular)
violenta (indicative present singular third-person)
violentamos (first-person indicative plural present)
violentais (indicative plural present second-person)
violentam (indicative plural present third-person)
violentava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
violentavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
violentava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
violentávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
violentáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
violentavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
violentei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
violentaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
violentou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
violentamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
violentámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
violentastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
violentaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
violentara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
violentaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
violentara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
violentáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
violentáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
violentaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
violentarei (first-person future indicative singular)
violentarás (future indicative second-person singular)
violentará (future indicative singular third-person)
violentaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
violentareis (future indicative plural second-person)
violentarão (future indicative plural third-person)
violentaria (conditional first-person singular)
violentarias (conditional second-person singular)
violentaria (conditional singular third-person)
violentaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
violentaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
violentariam (conditional plural third-person)
violente (first-person present singular subjunctive)
violentes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
violente (present singular subjunctive third-person)
violentemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
violenteis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
violentem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
violentasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
violentasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
violentasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
violentássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
violentásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
violentassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
violentar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
violentares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
violentar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
violentarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
violentardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
violentarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
violenta (imperative second-person singular)
violente (imperative singular third-person)
violentemos (first-person imperative plural)
violentai (imperative plural second-person)
violentem (imperative plural third-person)
não violentes (imperative negative second-person singular)
não violente (imperative negative singular third-person)
não violentemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não violenteis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não violentem (imperative negative plural third-person)

to rape (to force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon)

to break into (to enter illegally or by force)


banged up

My uncle has been banged up for ten years now; I haven't seen him in five.

(informal) Spending time in prison or jail.


contrabandear

es-verb

contrabandear (first-person singular present contrabandeo, first-person singular preterite contrabandeé, past participle contrabandeado)

contrabandeo (first-person present singular)
contrabandeé (first-person preterite singular)
contrabandeado (participle past)
contrabandear (infinitive)
contrabandeando (gerund)
contrabandeado (masculine participle past singular)
contrabandeada (feminine participle past singular)
contrabandeados (masculine participle past plural)
contrabandeadas (feminine participle past plural)
contrabandeo (first-person indicative present singular)
contrabandeas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
contrabandeás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
contrabandea (indicative present singular third-person)
contrabandeamos (first-person indicative plural present)
contrabandeáis (indicative plural present second-person)
contrabandean (indicative plural present third-person)
contrabandeaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
contrabandeabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
contrabandeaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
contrabandeábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
contrabandeabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
contrabandeaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
contrabandeé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
contrabandeaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
contrabandeó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
contrabandeamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
contrabandeasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
contrabandearon (indicative plural preterite third-person)
contrabandearé (first-person future indicative singular)
contrabandearás (future indicative second-person singular)
contrabandeará (future indicative singular third-person)
contrabandearemos (first-person future indicative plural)
contrabandearéis (future indicative plural second-person)
contrabandearán (future indicative plural third-person)
contrabandearía (conditional first-person indicative singular)
contrabandearías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
contrabandearía (conditional indicative singular third-person)
contrabandearíamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
contrabandearíais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
contrabandearían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
contrabandee (first-person present singular subjunctive)
contrabandees (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
contrabandeés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
contrabandee (present singular subjunctive third-person)
contrabandeemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
contrabandeéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
contrabandeen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
contrabandeara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
contrabandearas (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
contrabandeara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
contrabandeáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
contrabandearais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
contrabandearan (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
contrabandease (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
contrabandeases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
contrabandease (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
contrabandeásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
contrabandeaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
contrabandeasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
contrabandeare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
contrabandeares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
contrabandeare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
contrabandeáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
contrabandeareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
contrabandearen (future plural subjunctive third-person)
contrabandea (imperative informal second-person singular)
contrabandeá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
contrabandee (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
contrabandee (imperative singular third-person)
contrabandeemos (first-person imperative plural)
contrabandead (imperative plural second-person)
contrabandeen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
contrabandeen (imperative plural third-person)
contrabandees (imperative negative second-person singular)
contrabandee (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
contrabandee (imperative negative singular third-person)
contrabandeemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
contrabandeéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
contrabandeen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
contrabandeen (imperative negative plural third-person)
contrabandearme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
contrabandearte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
contrabandearle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandearse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandearnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
contrabandearos (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
contrabandearles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandearse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandearme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
contrabandearte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
contrabandearlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandearla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandearse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandearnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
contrabandearos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
contrabandearlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandearlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandearse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandeándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
contrabandeándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
contrabandeándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandeándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandeándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
contrabandeándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
contrabandeándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandeándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandeándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
contrabandeándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
contrabandeándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandeándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandeándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
contrabandeándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
contrabandeándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
contrabandeándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandeándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandeándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
contrabandéame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandéalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
contrabandeame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandeate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandeale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandeanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandeales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandeame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandeate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandealo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandeala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandeanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandealos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandealas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
contrabandéeme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
contrabandéele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
contrabandéese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
contrabandéenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
contrabandéeles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
contrabandéeme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
contrabandéelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
contrabandéela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
contrabandéese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
contrabandéenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
contrabandéelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
contrabandéelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
contrabandeémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
contrabandeémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
contrabandeémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
contrabandeémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
contrabandeémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
contrabandeémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
contrabandeémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
contrabandeémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
contrabandeémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
contrabandeémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
contrabandeémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
contrabandeémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
contrabandeadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
contrabandeadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandeadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
contrabandeaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
contrabandeadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandeadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
contrabandeadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandeadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandeadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
contrabandeaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
contrabandeadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandeadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandéenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
contrabandéenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandéennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
contrabandéenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandéense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandéenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
contrabandéenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandéenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandéennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
contrabandéenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandéenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
contrabandéense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)


stoning

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-stoning.wav

The stonings came as something of a surprise, in that Iranian officials had said they had suspended that method of execution.

2009 January 14, Nazila Fathi, “Iran Says U.S. Helped Finance Overthrow Plot”, in New York Times:

lapidation: punishment by throwing stones, usually resulting in death


narcotics

(law enforcement, law, politics) Pertaining to illicit drugs, especially psychoactive ones.


asesino

es-noun

asesino m (plural asesinos, feminine asesina, feminine plural asesinas)

asesinos (plural)
asesina (feminine)
asesinas (feminine plural)

From Arabic حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn, “hashish users”) or أَسَاسِيُّون (ʔasāsiyyūn).
Cognate with Italian assassino, French assassin.


confino

solitary confinement
solitary confinement