thieve

thieve (third-person singular simple present thieves, present participle thieving, simple past and past participle thieved)

thieves (present singular third-person)
thieving (participle present)
thieved (participle past)
thieved (past)

From Middle English *theven (found in Middle English thevinge (“thieving”)), from Old English þēofian, ġeþēofian, ġeþīefian (“to thieve, steal”).


hydra

hydra (nominative singular)
hydry (nominative plural)
hydry (genitive singular)
hyder (genitive plural)
hydře (dative singular)
hydrám (dative plural)
hydru (accusative singular)
hydry (accusative plural)
hydro (singular vocative)
hydry (plural vocative)
hydře (locative singular)
hydrách (locative plural)
hydrou (instrumental singular)
hydrami (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra). Doublet of vydra.

bor+

Šéf Útvaru pro odhalování organizovaného zločinu Robert Šlachta popsal veřejnosti, jak vlastně vypadá kauza Nagyová, kmotři a korupčníci. Je to hluboká klientelistická hydra.

(Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

The boss of the police unit for combating organized crime Robert Šlachta has described to the public how the case of Nagyová, godfathers and bribers appears. It is a deep clientelistic hydra.

something monstrous which is extremely difficult to fight with (often connected with organized crime)


shadow

en-noun

shadow (countable and uncountable, plural shadows)

From Middle English schadowe, schadewe, schadwe (also schade > shade), from Old English sċeaduwe, sċeadwe, oblique form of sċeadu (“shadow, shade; darkness; protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shade, shadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots scaddow, schaddow (“shadow”), Saterland Frisian Skaad (“shade, shadow”), Dutch schaduw (“shadow”), German Schatten (“shadow, shade”), Norwegian skodde (“fog, mist”), Irish scáth (“shadow”), Ancient Greek σκότος (skótos, “darkness, gloom”) (whence English scoto-).

cog

(UK, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.


rauben

de-verb

rauben (weak, third-person singular present raubt, past tense raubte, past participle geraubt, auxiliary haben)

raubt (present singular third-person)
raubte (past)
geraubt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
rauben (infinitive)
raubend (participle present)
geraubt (participle past)
raube (first-person indicative present singular)
rauben (first-person indicative plural present)
raube (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
rauben (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
raubst (indicative present second-person singular)
raubt (indicative plural present second-person)
raubest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
raubet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
raubt (indicative present singular third-person)
rauben (indicative plural present third-person)
raube (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
rauben (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
raubte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
raubten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
raubte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
raubten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
raubtest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
raubtet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
raubtest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
raubtet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
raubte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
raubten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
raubte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
raubten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
raub (imperative second-person singular)
raube (imperative second-person singular)
raubt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe geraubt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben geraubt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe geraubt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben geraubt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast geraubt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt geraubt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest geraubt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet geraubt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat geraubt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben geraubt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe geraubt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben geraubt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte geraubt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten geraubt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte geraubt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten geraubt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest geraubt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet geraubt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest geraubt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet geraubt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte geraubt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten geraubt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte geraubt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten geraubt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
rauben werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde rauben (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden rauben (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest rauben (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet rauben (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde rauben (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden rauben (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde rauben (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden rauben (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde rauben (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden rauben (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst rauben (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet rauben (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest rauben (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet rauben (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird rauben (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden rauben (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde rauben (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden rauben (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
geraubt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde geraubt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden geraubt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest geraubt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet geraubt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde geraubt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden geraubt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde geraubt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden geraubt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde geraubt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden geraubt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst geraubt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet geraubt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest geraubt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet geraubt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird geraubt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden geraubt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde geraubt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden geraubt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

From Middle High German rouben, from Old High German roubōn, from Proto-West Germanic *raubōn, from Proto-Germanic *raubōną.

(intransitive, transitive) to rob, to steal (criminal act)

1931, Gebhard Mehring, Schrift und Schrifttum, Silberburg-Verlag, page 13

The decay of the Roman empire robbed the city of Rome of the old position as the center of all that was happening.

Der Zerfall des Römerreiches raubte der Stadt Rom die alte Stellung als Mittelpunkt alles Geschehens.


burgle

en-verb

burgle (third-person singular simple present burgles, present participle burgling, simple past and past participle burgled)

burgles (present singular third-person)
burgling (participle present)
burgled (participle past)
burgled (past)

In St. Louis, burglars burgle by daylight

1867 March 14, “This and That”, in Delaware Tribune, Wilmington, DE, page 1:

The New York World has coined a new verb -- "to burgle."

1867 August 24, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, page 8:

The language grows apace. A "cablegram" has been received, and $400 have been "burgled."

1868 February 13, Louisville Daily Courier, Louisvile, KY, page 4:

Burgled his safe and bolted with the tin.

1868, John Brougham, Much Ado About a Merchant of Venice, New York: Samuel French, page 13:

[S]he went and burgled three pears out of the dish ...

1869, Joanna H. Mathews, Bessie at School, London: James Nisbet & Co., page 183:

Conceive the Great Lexicographer admitting to his Dictionary such excrescencies as: "Burgle, verb active, To break into a dwelling-house,"

1870 February 5, “American Slangography”, in Punch, London, page 44:

Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism. ... The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle.

1872, M. Schele De Vere, Americanisms: The English of the New World, New York: Charles Scribner, page 587:

When an American says, "I've been burgled" -- where an Englishman would say, "My house has been broken into by thieves" -- he succeeds in shortening the statement by more than half ...

1873 April 21, Albert Julius Mott, “Inaugural Address”, in Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, volume xxvii, London: Longman, Greens, Reader & Dyer, page 30:

Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night.

1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Beryl Coronet”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To commit burglary.


si

(law enforcement) aphetic form of seksi (“section”)


thief

From Middle English thef, theef, þef, from Old English þēof, from Proto-West Germanic *þeub, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz. Spelling from Northern England, where /eːo/ became [iə] rather than [eː]. (Compare the spelling of deep from Old English deop.)

But hear you, my Worthy Brethren: do not you, where you see a thief in the candle, call presently for an extinguisher[…]

(obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.


steel

I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. [...] six months in the Bastille (the old House of Corrections), Coldbath Fields.

1862, Havelock Ellis, The Criminal, page 162:

He said he had been in the “steel” (Coldbath Fields Prison) eight times.

1866, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar, volume 16, page 507:

This time I got two moon for assaulting the reelers when canon. For this I went to the Steel (Bastile^([sic]) — Coldbath Fields Prison), having a new suit of clobber on me and about fifty blow in my brigh (pocket).

1879, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 40, page 502:

(UK, crime, slang, obsolete) Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.


pirate

→ Niuean: pairēti

From Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".

You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.

(crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.


in flagrante delicto

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Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin in flagrante delicto (literally “while the crime is blazing”), from in + flāgrō (“burn”) + dēlictō, form of dēlictum (“crime, misdeed”).

ubor

We've already established that you were one of Miss Scarlet's clients. That's why you were so desperate to get your hands on those negatives. Photographs of you and Yvette in flagrante delicto, remember?

1985, Jonathan Lynn, Clue, spoken by Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull):

I would add to that the fact that, if we are happy to be caught in flagrante delicto in a picturesque setting, there would be something almost humiliating about being caught somewhere as ugly as that.

2002, Adriana Hunter, transl., The Sexual Life of Catherine M., translation of La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, page 146:

When his housemates, two men and a woman, found them in flagrante delicto, one reported, “She said she didn’t want us to think of her as ‘that girl.’ ”

2015 February 8, Naomi Schaefer Riley, “Columbia mattress rape case is not justice — it’s shaming without proof”, in New York Post:

As a student of the fossil record, I can assure you that it’s not often that creatures are transformed, in flagrante delicto, into memento mori.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 65:


in flagrante delicto

En prest i Chevreuse blef i söndags "in flagrante delicto" ertappad under en förtrolig tête à tête med en 22-årig hustru till en rik klädeshandlare.

1874 August 21, “Utrikes-Nyheter [Foreign News]”, in Dagens Nyheter, page 2:

A priest in Chevreuse was caught "in flagrante delicto" on Sunday during a confidential tête à tête with the 22-year-old wife of a rich clothing merchant.

På vägen ner stöter jag på två parande puktörneblåvingar; in flagrante delicto, hade Linné sagt med förtjusning.

2007 June 10, Göteborgs-Posten, quoted in Korp – the corpus infrastructure of Språkbanken:

On the way down, I come across two mating polyommatus icarus; in flagrante delicto, Linnaeus would had said with delight.

Belgisk polis grep på fredagskvällen 25 personer, de flesta män, ”in flagrante delicto”, eller bokstavligen med byxorna nere, då de höll en illegal lockdownfest ovanpå en bar i Bryssels centrum. De var mitt uppe i ett gruppsexparty.

2020 December 1, Teresa Küchler, “EU-politiker greps på gruppsexfest i Bryssel [EU politicians arrested at group sex party in Brussels]”, in Svenska Dagbladet:

Belgian police on Friday night arrested 25 people, most of them men, "in flagrante delicto", or literally with their pants down, as they held an illegal lockdown party on top of a bar in central Brussels. They were in the middle of a group sex party.

in flagrante delicto
in flagrante delicto#English

(uncommon) in flagrante delicto (while performing sexual activity)


bobby

Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby

2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):


killer

en-noun

killer (countable and uncountable, plural killers)

→ German: Killer

→ Italian: killer

→ Japanese: キラー (kirā)

→ Russian: ки́ллер (kíller)

From Middle English killer, kyller. By surface analysis, kill + -er.

There’s a killer on the loose.

My cat is a habitual bird killer.

Carbon monoxide is a silent killer.


front

csb-noun

front m inan (related adjective frontowi)

(military, law enforcement) front (foremost part of a line of soldiers or policemen)


front

pl-noun

front m inan (related adjective frontowy)

frontowy (adjective)
front (nominative singular)
fronty (nominative plural)
frontu (genitive singular)
frontów (genitive plural)
frontowi (dative singular)
frontom (dative plural)
front (accusative singular)
fronty (accusative plural)
frontem (instrumental singular)
frontami (instrumental plural)
froncie (locative singular)
frontach (locative plural)
froncie (singular vocative)
fronty (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: front

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Front, French front, or English front, ultimately from Latin frōns. First attested in 1656–1688. Compare Silesian frōnt.

ref

“FRONT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.03.2009


burglar

/ˈbɜːɡlə(ɹ)/

-ɜː(ɹ)ɡlə(ɹ)

Borrowed from British Medieval Latin burglātor, from Old French burgeor (“burglar”), from Medieval Latin burgātor (“burglar”), from burgō (“to commit burglary”), from Late Latin burgus (“fortified town”), probably from Frankish *burg (“fortress”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, *burgiją (“borough, watch-tower”). The -l- may have been inserted under influence from Latin latro (“thief”).

The burglar made off with a large diamond from the museum.

In the village itself his lionheartedness had been a legend ever since he had brained a burglar with a number seven iron, and the jury in Guildford had, despite the clear direction of the judge, resolutely declined to convict him for the use of unnecessary force.

2010, Louis De Bernières, Notwithstanding, →ISBN, page 82:

There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.

2017 June 23, Max Byrd, “A Trip to Southern Italy to Shed Light on a Family Scandal”, in The New York Times:

A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft.


murder in the first degree

en-noun

murder in the first degree (countable and uncountable, plural murders in the first degree)

first-degree murder
first-degree murder#English


ratto

2007, Andrea Celestino Montanaro, Ruvo di Puglia e il suo territorio: le necropoli : i corredi funerari tra la documentazione del XIX secolo e gli scavi moderni, L'Erma di Bretschneider (1st ed.), →ISBN, page 60.
(...) di una grande loutrophoros decorata con scene di amazzonomachia e scene di ispirazione dionisiaca, di una lekythos con Eracle nel giardino dell Esperidi e di una situla con la raffigurazione dell'uccisione di Reso e il ratto dei suoi cavalli, mentre degli altri vasi viene data una descrizione sommaria.

(...) of a large loutrophoros depicting scenes of amazonomachia and scenes of dionysiac inspiration, of a lekythos depicting Hercules in the garden of the Hesperides and of a situla with a representation of Rhesus' murder and the abduction of his horses, while the other ones are only summarily described.

(literary, specifically referring to classical antiquity) abduction


IP

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

(law enforcement) Initialism of injured party.


first-degree murder

first-degree murder (countable and uncountable, plural first-degree murders)

(law, chiefly US, Canada) An act that constitutes the crime of first-degree murder.


rub out

en-verb

rub out (third-person singular simple present rubs out, present participle rubbing out, simple past and past participle rubbed out)

rubs out (present singular third-person)
rubbing out (participle present)
rubbed out (participle past)
rubbed out (past)

Coordinate term: rub off

The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard.

(transitive) To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser).

It was just a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows.

'Mr Grimaldi,' fills in Smoke, 'what I believe Fay has too much tact to spit out and say is this: the Rey woman might be imagining we rubbed out Dr Sixsmith.'

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

(transitive, criminal slang) To kill, especially to murder.


rob

rob (third-person singular simple present robs, present participle robbing, simple past and past participle robbed)

robs (present singular third-person)
robbing (participle present)
robbed (participle past)
robbed (past)

From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, from Late Latin raubāre, from Frankish *raubōn (compare Dutch roven) and Old High German roubōn, raubōn (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *raubōną. Doublet of reave.

The best way to rob a bank is to own one.

I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

(transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.

Her house was robbed.

2008 September 4, National Public Radio, All Things Considered:


jam sandwich

(UK, Ireland, slang) (from the common UK colour scheme of white with a red reflective horizontal band) A police car.


job

→ Antillean Creole: djòb

→ French: job

→ Louisiana Creole: djòb

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

der

“He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.”

2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 14:17 from the start, in Endeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DS Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans):

But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties.[…]She’s job. We used to work together.

2018 July 24, Chris Merritt, Last Witness:A Gripping Crime Thriller You Won’t Be Able To Put Down:

“I’m job, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.”

2022 February 9, Daragh Carville, Richard Clark, Furquan Akhtar, 01:33 from the start, in The Bay, season 3, episode 5, spoken by D.S Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason):

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

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(UK, slang, law enforcement) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.


ladro

From earlier latro, from Latin latrō (“mercenary; thief; robber”) (nominative form). Doublet of ladrone, from the Latin accusative latrōnem.


detail

en-noun

detail (countable and uncountable, plural details)

Borrowed from Middle French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Frequently members of the small police detail dispatched to the scene joined in.

2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 7, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:

(military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.


detail

en-verb

detail (third-person singular simple present details, present participle detailing, simple past and past participle detailed)

details (present singular third-person)
detailing (participle present)
detailed (participle past)
detailed (past)

Two years after England’s World Cup victory, Stiles was at Wembley again to help Manchester United become the first English team to win the European Cup final. Again Eusébio was one of his opponents, playing for Benfica, and again Stiles was detailed to keep him quiet. […]

2020 October 30, Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, in The Guardian:

(transitive, military, law enforcement) To assign to a particular task.

komentaa

military: to assign to a particular task


ghost

ghost (third-person singular simple present ghosts, present participle ghosting, simple past and past participle ghosted)

ghosts (present singular third-person)
ghosting (participle present)
ghosted (participle past)
ghosted (past)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

His power base, however, is undermined by him being constantly, “ghosted”, or moved from prison to prison.

2020, Jamie Bennett, Victoria Knight, Prisoners on Prison Films, page 26:

(transitive) To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison without the prior knowledge of other inmates.


ticket

→ Assamese: টিকট (tikot)

desc

→ Bengali: টিকিট (ṭikiṭ), টিকট (ṭikoṭ), টিকেট (ṭikeṭ) — anglicized pronunciation

→ Catalan: tiquet

→ Dhivehi: ޓިކެޓް (ṭikeṭ)

→ Dutch: ticket
→ Indonesian: tiket

→ French: ticket

→ German: Ticket

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: टिकट (ṭikaṭ)

Urdu: ٹکٹ (ṭikaṭ)

→ Irish: ticéad

→ Italian: ticket

→ Japanese: チケット (chiketto)

→ Korean: 티켓 (tiket)

→ Malay: tiket

→ Maori: tīketi

→ Marathi: तिकीट (tikīṭ)

→ Nepali: टिकट (ṭikaṭ)

→ Odia: ଟିକଟ (ṭikaṭa)

→ Portuguese: tíquete, ticket (Brazil)

→ Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid

→ Serbo-Croatian: тикет (tiket)

→ Spanish: ticket, tique, tiquete

→ Tagalog: tiket

→ Tamil: டிக்கட்டு (ṭikkaṭṭu)

→ Tamil: டிக்கட்டு (ṭikkaṭṭu)

→ Tibetan: ཏི་ཀ་སི (ti ka si, “postage stamp”)

→ Tok Pisin: tiket

From Middle English ticket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

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Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

[…] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts, page 148:


murder

en-verb

murder (third-person singular simple present murders, present participle murdering, simple past and past participle murdered)

murders (present singular third-person)
murdering (participle present)
murdered (participle past)
murdered (past)

From Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (“murder”) (see murther), from Old English morþor (“secret slaying, unlawful killing”) and Old English myrþra (“murder, homicide”), both from Proto-West Germanic *morþr, from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“death, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tro- (“killing”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr̥- (“to die”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂 (maurþr, “murder”), Old High German mord (“murder”), Old Norse morð (“murder”), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”) and morþ.
The -d- in the Middle English form may have been influenced in part by Anglo-Norman murdre, from Old French murdre, from Medieval Latin murdrum (whence the English doublet of murdrum), from Frankish *morþr, *murþr (“murder”), from the same Germanic root, though this may also have been wholly the result of internal development (compare burden, from burthen).
(crows): Attested at least since 1475.

inh

The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.

In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, page 26, columns 1–2:

To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination


murder

From English murder, from Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (“murder”) (see murther), from Old English morþor (“secret slaying, unlawful killing”) and Old English myrþra (“murder, homicide”), both from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“death, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“killing”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to die”).

the crime of deliberate killing of another human


aggravated

en-adj

aggravated (comparative more aggravated, superlative most aggravated)

more aggravated (comparative)
most aggravated (superlative)

/ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯tɪd/

(criminology) Of or characterized by factors that increase the heinousness or offensiveness of the criminal offense.


sons

la-adj

sōns (genitive sontis); third-declension one-termination adjective

sōns (canonical)
sontis (genitive)
sōns (feminine masculine neuter nominative singular)
sontēs (feminine masculine nominative plural)
sontia (neuter nominative plural)
sontis (feminine genitive masculine neuter singular)
sontium (feminine genitive masculine neuter plural)
sontum (feminine genitive masculine neuter plural)
sontī (dative feminine masculine neuter singular)
sontibus (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
sontem (accusative feminine masculine singular)
sōns (accusative neuter singular)
sontēs (accusative feminine masculine plural)
sontia (accusative neuter plural)
sontī (ablative feminine masculine neuter singular)
sontibus (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
sōns (feminine masculine neuter singular vocative)
sontēs (feminine masculine plural vocative)
sontia (neuter plural vocative)

From Proto-Italic *sonts (see *som), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-s, the present participle of *h₁es- (whence also sum). Due to vowel reduction, it appears as -sēns in compounded forms of sum. Thus "he who is it", "the real person", "the guilty one". Compare English sooth for an exact cognate, and sin for the same semantic development.


sons

la-noun

sōns m (genitive sontis); third declension

sōns (canonical masculine)
sontis (genitive)
sōns (nominative singular)
sontēs (nominative plural)
sontis (genitive singular)
sontium (genitive plural)
sontum (genitive plural)
sontī (dative singular)
sontibus (dative plural)
sontem (accusative singular)
sontēs (accusative plural)
sontīs (accusative plural)
sonte (ablative singular)
sontibus (ablative plural)
sōns (singular vocative)
sontēs (plural vocative)


stale

From Middle English stale (“bird used as a decoy”), probably from uncommon Anglo-Norman estale (“pigeon used to lure hawks”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic, probably *standaną (“to stand”). Compare Old English stælhran (“decoy reindeer”) and Northumbrian stællo (“catching fish”).

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Their mynisters, be false bretherne or false sustern, stales of the deuyll.

1526, W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection, section III:

This is Captain Whibble, the Towne stale, For all cheating imployments.

(crime, obsolete) An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.

Spare not to tell him, that he hath wronged his honor in marrying the renowned Claudio...to a contaminated stale.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 23:

But to be leaft for such a one as she, The stale of all, what will folke thinke of me?

...detesting as he said the insatiable impudency of a prostitute Stale.

c. 1641, Ralph Montagu, Acts & Monuments, section 265:

(crime, obsolete) A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.


farao

farao m anim or (canonical neuter)
farao (nominative singular)
faraoni (nominative plural)
faraonové (nominative plural)
faraona (genitive singular)
faraonů (genitive plural)
faraonovi (dative singular)
faraonu (dative singular)
faraonům (dative plural)
faraona (accusative singular)
faraony (accusative plural)
faraone (singular vocative)
faraoni (plural vocative)
faraonové (plural vocative)
faraonovi (locative singular)
faraonu (locative singular)
faraonech (locative plural)
faraonem (instrumental singular)
faraony (instrumental plural)
farao (nominative singular)
faraa (nominative plural)
faraa (genitive singular)
faraí (genitive plural)
farau (dative singular)
faraům (dative plural)
farao (accusative singular)
faraa (accusative plural)
farao (singular vocative)
faraa (plural vocative)
farau (locative singular)
faraech (locative plural)
faraem (instrumental singular)
faray (instrumental plural)


farao

head

farao c (singular definite faraoen, plural indefinite faraoer or faraoner)

faraoen (definite singular)
faraoer (indefinite plural)
faraoner (indefinite plural)
farao (indefinite nominative singular)
faraoen (definite nominative singular)
faraoer (indefinite nominative plural)
faraoner (indefinite nominative plural)
faraoerne (definite nominative plural)
faraonerne (definite nominative plural)
faraos (genitive indefinite singular)
faraoens (definite genitive singular)
faraoers (genitive indefinite plural)
faraoners (genitive indefinite plural)
faraoernes (definite genitive plural)
faraonernes (definite genitive plural)

From Late Latin pharaō, from Ancient Greek φαραώ (pharaṓ), from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ (“palace, pharaoh”), literally pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”).


farao

nl-noun

farao m (plural farao's, diminutive faraootje n)

farao's (plural)
faraootje (diminutive neuter)


farao

faraoen (definite singular)
faraoer (indefinite plural)
faraoene (definite plural)

a pharaoh (supreme ruler of ancient Egypt)


farao

faraoen (definite singular)
faraoar (indefinite plural)
faraoane (definite plural)


farao

farao (indefinite nominative singular)
faraos (genitive indefinite singular)
faraon (definite nominative singular)
faraons (definite genitive singular)
faraoner (indefinite nominative plural)
faraoners (genitive indefinite plural)
faraonerna (definite nominative plural)
faraonernas (definite genitive plural)

Inherited from Old Swedish pharao, from Late Latin Pharaō, from Ancient Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh).


blog

→ Bulgarian: блог (blog)

→ Catalan: blog

→ Czech: blogovat

→ Danish: blogge

tooltip

reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes

→ Dutch: blog, ⇒ bloggen

→ Faroese: blogga

→ Finnish: blogata

→ French: bloguer

→ German: Blog

→ Hungarian: blogol

→ Icelandic: blogga

→ Italian: blog, ⇒ bloggare

→ Macedonian: блог (blog)

→ Polish: blog

desc

→ Portuguese: blogue, blog (unadapted spelling)

→ Russian: блог (blog)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: бло̀г

Latin: blòg

→ Spanish: blog, ⇒ bloguear

→ Swahili: blogu

→ Thai: บล็อก (blɔ́k)

→ Turkish: blog

→ Yoruba: búlọ́ọ̀gù

Rebracketing of weblog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog.

So you see, the blog has been around since the beginning of the web; that is how basic the concept is. Today's blogs, and the activity of blogging, have taken on more meaning, but the concept of it all is still very simple and rooted in the beginning and intentions of the web itself.

2002, Biz Stone, chapter 1, in Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, Indianapolis: New Riders Pub., →ISBN, page 4:

Have you tried these, darling? They’re tempura zucchini flowers. Japanese-Italian fusion! My own invention. Shall I photograph it? We can put it on our blog.

2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 150:

(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)


infanticide

en-noun

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

(law, Canada) The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.


IO

IO (countable and uncountable, plural IOs)

(Singapore, law enforcement) Initialism of investigation officer.


CRT

CRT (countable and uncountable, plural CRTs)

crisis response team
crisis response team#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of crisis response team.


DAC

DAC (countable and uncountable, plural DACs)

deputy assistant commissioner
deputy assistant commissioner#English

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of deputy assistant commissioner, a police rank used in London's Metropolitan Police.


sata

ha-noun

sātā̀ f (plural sā̀ce-sā̀ce, possessed form sātàr̃)

sātā̀ (canonical feminine)
sā̀ce-sā̀ce (plural)
sātàr̃ (possessed-form)


phisher

A person who engages in phishing attacks.


gulag

Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”), the government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960: see GULAG.

A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.


OCPD

Lahad Datu OCPD, ACP Hamzah Ahmad said both suspects, believed to be Malaysian nationals aged 46 and 47, were detained at 2pm after police received information from the public on the drug trafficking activities at a car parking area in the town centre.

2015 March 29, “Two men detained, drugs worth RM250k seized”, in New Straits Times:

The remand for nine individuals, including two officers-in-charge of police districts (OCPD) has been extended by five days […]

2017 May 22, “Remand for Melaka cops extended over protection money racket probe”, in Malay Mail:

Home minister Hamzah Zainudin said the OCPDs would act as ground commanders to coordinate the operation, which will be conducted jointly with other enforcement agencies.

2021 July 1, “OCPDs to lead nationwide SOP crackdown”, in Free Malaysia Today:

(Malaysia, law enforcement) Initialism of Officer in Charge of the Police District.


executioner

/ˌɛksəˈkjuːʃənə/

An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.

therës

the person who carries out the execution

A hit man, especially being in some organization.


execution

en-noun

execution (countable and uncountable, plural executions)

From Old French execution (c.1360), from Latin exsecutiō, an agent noun from exsequor (“to follow out”), from ex (“out”) + sequor (“follow”).

The mission's successful execution lifted the troops' morale.

Coordinate term: realization

uitvoering

act of executing or the state of being executed


political prisoner

political prisoner (plural political prisoners)

Section 2 directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War to furnish to the judges of the circuit and district courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia, a list of the names of all persons, citizens of loyal States, held as State or political prisoners of the United States, in any for, arsenal, or other place […]

1864, Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion, from November 6, 1860, to July 4, 1864:

The political prisoner, however, undergoes cross-examination, as do all other prisoners, at the hands of the Court on the threshold of the trial, before any evidence on the part of the prosecution or the defense has been adduced.

1920 December 20, The World Tomorrow, volume 3, page 377:

This is the first major study that examines the community of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.

2008, Esmail Nashif, Palestinian Political Prisoners: Identity and Community, page ii:

A person imprisoned for their political views or political activism.


runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.


carrot

carrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots)

→ Fijian: kareti

→ Malay: karot

→ Tagalog: karot

→ Thai: แครอท (kɛɛ-rɔ̀t)

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”).
* Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
* Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

Daucus carota
Daucus carota#Translingual

A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.

(UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background.

(UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.

(slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person


koza

kózka (diminutive)
koza (nominative singular)
kozy (nominative plural)
kozy (genitive singular)
kóz (genitive plural)
kozie (dative singular)
kozom (dative plural)
kozę (accusative singular)
kozy (accusative plural)
kozą (instrumental singular)
kozami (instrumental plural)
kozie (locative singular)
kozach (locative plural)
kozo (singular vocative)
kozy (plural vocative)

→ Low Prussian: Koss

Cobitis taenia
Cobitis taenia#Translingual

any spined loach (Cobitis, especially Cobitis taenia or golden loach)


apprehend

en-verb

apprehend (third-person singular simple present apprehends, present participle apprehending, simple past and past participle apprehended)

apprehends (present singular third-person)
apprehending (participle present)
apprehended (participle past)
apprehended (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-apprehend.wav

From Late Middle English apprehenden (“to grasp, take hold of; to comprehend; to learn”), from Old French apprehender (modern French appréhender (“to apprehend; to catch; to dread”)), from Latin apprehendere, adprehendere, the present active infinitive of apprehendō, adprehendō (“to grab, grasp, seize, take; to apprehend, arrest; to comprehend, understand; to embrace, include; to take possession of, obtain, secure”), from ap-, ad- (prefix meaning ‘to’) + prehendō (“to grab, grasp, seize, snatch, take; to accost; to catch in the act, take by surprise; (figuratively, rare) of the mind: to apprehend, comprehend, grasp”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to hold, seize, take; to find”)).

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Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.

[…] Paul before his converſion entred into their Synagogues at Damaſcus, to apprehend Chriſtians, men and women, and to carry them bound to Jeruſalem, by Commiſſion from the High Prieſt.

1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Power Ecclesiasticall”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Of a Christian Common-wealth), page 276:

[A] juſtice of the peace cannot iſſue a warrant to apprehend a felon upon bare ſuſpicion; no, not even till an indictment be actually found: and the contrary practice is by others held to be grounded rather upon connivance, than the expreſs rule of law; though now by long cuſtom eſtabliſhed.

1769, William Blackstone, “Of Arrests”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book IV (Of Public Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 287:

He soon returned to the Lowlands, and stayed there till he learned that a considerable body of troops had been sent to apprehend him.

1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 328:

(law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.

арышто́ўваць

to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest


drop

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to crumble, grind”).

nb...

dropan, droupe, (Northern England) droipe

afval

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension

piisk

very small quantity of liquid, or of anything

piisk

that which hangs or resembles a liquid globule

pudotettu esine

(online gaming, video games) item dropped by a defeated enemy

langemine

decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate

afgrond

As the prisoners prepared to leave, they had seen Dan and Steve standing together in the breezeway, ‘for all the world like two condemned prisoners on the drop’.

2003, Ian Jones, Ned Kelly: A Short Life, revised edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Hachette Australia, published 2010, →ISBN:

Crook: "I'll find the killers for you, I swear." / Cop: "So why didn't you?" / Crook: "I'm scared of 'em." / Cop: "More than the drop?" / Crook: "Aye. Maybe."

2015 November 25, Benjamin Ross, Barry Langford, “All the Lost Children” (26:40 from the start), in The Frankenstein Chronicles, season 1, episode 3:

(law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.

[A]ll those present shared the all-important political connections required to get a ticket to the execution. News reporters, doctors, and members of the juries had prime spots right by the platform, so that they could see the drop and record the time of death.

2011, Elizabeth Dale, “Justice is Served”, in The Chicago Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century, DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 74:

An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

(law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.

The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.

(law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.


carnage

Inherited from Middle French carnage, itself probably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (see also chair (“flesh”)), or from a Medieval Latin carnāticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carnem. See also Old Occitan carnatge, Italian carnaggio.


PDB

Polis Diraja Brunei
w:ms:Polis Diraja Brunei

(Brunei, law enforcement) Initialism of Polis Diraja Brunei (“Royal Brunei Police Force”)


triad

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin triad-, stem of trias (“three, triad”), from Ancient Greek τριάς (triás).
Sense 3 (“branch of a Chinese underground criminal society”) is due to the word being applied by the British authorities to underground society in Hong Kong based on the geometry of the Chinese character, derived from a name used by some of those societies, 三合會／三合会 (sānhéhuì, “Three Harmonies Society”), referring to the union between heaven, earth, and humanity.

The point — and the symbolism — was that so long as the informer kept his mouth shut he was alive. Harry had seen the result of zjuk carried out by the Tapei Triad on a poor jerk they found in a back street of Tan-shui. They had used broad nail heads that didn’t make such big holes on their way in. When the paramedics came and pulled the brick off the dead man, the face came with it.

2012 [2011], Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett, Gjenferd [Phantom] (Fiction), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:

A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.


felony

From Middle English felony, felonie, from Old French felonie (“evil, immoral deed”), from felon (“evildoer”). Ultimately of Proto-Germanic origin. More at felon.

Coordinate term: misdemeanor

Many experts have also expressed skepticism about the significance of this case and its legal underpinnings, which employed an unusual legal theory to seek a felony charge for what is more commonly a misdemeanor, and Mr. Trump will undoubtedly seek an appeal.

2024 May 30, The Editorial Board, “Donald Trump, Felon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(law, criminology, US, historical in UK) A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by a term of imprisonment of not less than one year or by the death penalty in the most serious offenses.


imprisonment

en-noun

imprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural imprisonments)

From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison + -ment.

His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment and hard constraint.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2:

Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.

1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.


misdemeanor

Coordinate term: felony

(law, criminology, historical in UK) A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony.


clavis

From Latin clāvis (“a key”). Doublet of clave and clef.

Iron clavis, the solid web-shaped at the edges to fit the wards in the lock, and having a pointed broach and a kite-formed looped haft.

1873, “Proceedings of the Association”, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, volume 29, April 9th, page 202:


yakuza

From Japanese やくざ (yakuza). See there for more details.

cartel

Latin American organized crime syndicate

يَاكُوزَا

member of a Japanese organized crime gang


yakuza

yakuza (nominative singular)
yakuzat (nominative plural)
yakuza (accusative nominative singular)
yakuzat (accusative nominative plural)
yakuzan (accusative genitive singular)
yakuzat (accusative genitive plural)
yakuzan (genitive singular)
yakuzoiden (genitive plural)
yakuzoitten (genitive plural)
yakuzojen (genitive plural)
yakuzain (genitive plural rare)
yakuzaa (partitive singular)
yakuzoita (partitive plural)
yakuzoja (partitive plural)
yakuzassa (inessive singular)
yakuzoissa (inessive plural)
yakuzasta (elative singular)
yakuzoista (elative plural)
yakuzaan (illative singular)
yakuzoihin (illative plural)
yakuzalla (adessive singular)
yakuzoilla (adessive plural)
yakuzalta (ablative singular)
yakuzoilta (ablative plural)
yakuzalle (allative singular)
yakuzoille (allative plural)
yakuzana (essive singular)
yakuzoina (essive plural)
yakuzaksi (singular translative)
yakuzoiksi (plural translative)
yakuzatta (abessive singular)
yakuzoitta (abessive plural)
yakuzoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
yakuzani (nominative singular)
yakuzani (nominative plural)
yakuzani (accusative nominative singular)
yakuzani (accusative nominative plural)
yakuzani (accusative genitive singular)
yakuzani (accusative genitive plural)
yakuzani (genitive singular)
yakuzoideni (genitive plural)
yakuzoitteni (genitive plural)
yakuzojeni (genitive plural)
yakuzaini (genitive plural rare)
yakuzaani (partitive singular)
yakuzoitani (partitive plural)
yakuzojani (partitive plural)
yakuzassani (inessive singular)
yakuzoissani (inessive plural)
yakuzastani (elative singular)
yakuzoistani (elative plural)
yakuzaani (illative singular)
yakuzoihini (illative plural)
yakuzallani (adessive singular)
yakuzoillani (adessive plural)
yakuzaltani (ablative singular)
yakuzoiltani (ablative plural)
yakuzalleni (allative singular)
yakuzoilleni (allative plural)
yakuzanani (essive singular)
yakuzoinani (essive plural)
yakuzakseni (singular translative)
yakuzoikseni (plural translative)
yakuzattani (abessive singular)
yakuzoittani (abessive plural)
yakuzoineni (comitative plural)
yakuzasi (nominative singular)
yakuzasi (nominative plural)
yakuzasi (accusative nominative singular)
yakuzasi (accusative nominative plural)
yakuzasi (accusative genitive singular)
yakuzasi (accusative genitive plural)
yakuzasi (genitive singular)
yakuzoidesi (genitive plural)
yakuzoittesi (genitive plural)
yakuzojesi (genitive plural)
yakuzaisi (genitive plural rare)
yakuzaasi (partitive singular)
yakuzoitasi (partitive plural)
yakuzojasi (partitive plural)
yakuzassasi (inessive singular)
yakuzoissasi (inessive plural)
yakuzastasi (elative singular)
yakuzoistasi (elative plural)
yakuzaasi (illative singular)
yakuzoihisi (illative plural)
yakuzallasi (adessive singular)
yakuzoillasi (adessive plural)
yakuzaltasi (ablative singular)
yakuzoiltasi (ablative plural)
yakuzallesi (allative singular)
yakuzoillesi (allative plural)
yakuzanasi (essive singular)
yakuzoinasi (essive plural)
yakuzaksesi (singular translative)
yakuzoiksesi (plural translative)
yakuzattasi (abessive singular)
yakuzoittasi (abessive plural)
yakuzoinesi (comitative plural)
yakuzamme (nominative singular)
yakuzamme (nominative plural)
yakuzamme (accusative nominative singular)
yakuzamme (accusative nominative plural)
yakuzamme (accusative genitive singular)
yakuzamme (accusative genitive plural)
yakuzamme (genitive singular)
yakuzoidemme (genitive plural)
yakuzoittemme (genitive plural)
yakuzojemme (genitive plural)
yakuzaimme (genitive plural rare)
yakuzaamme (partitive singular)
yakuzoitamme (partitive plural)
yakuzojamme (partitive plural)
yakuzassamme (inessive singular)
yakuzoissamme (inessive plural)
yakuzastamme (elative singular)
yakuzoistamme (elative plural)
yakuzaamme (illative singular)
yakuzoihimme (illative plural)
yakuzallamme (adessive singular)
yakuzoillamme (adessive plural)
yakuzaltamme (ablative singular)
yakuzoiltamme (ablative plural)
yakuzallemme (allative singular)
yakuzoillemme (allative plural)
yakuzanamme (essive singular)
yakuzoinamme (essive plural)
yakuzaksemme (singular translative)
yakuzoiksemme (plural translative)
yakuzattamme (abessive singular)
yakuzoittamme (abessive plural)
yakuzoinemme (comitative plural)
yakuzanne (nominative singular)
yakuzanne (nominative plural)
yakuzanne (accusative nominative singular)
yakuzanne (accusative nominative plural)
yakuzanne (accusative genitive singular)
yakuzanne (accusative genitive plural)
yakuzanne (genitive singular)
yakuzoidenne (genitive plural)
yakuzoittenne (genitive plural)
yakuzojenne (genitive plural)
yakuzainne (genitive plural rare)
yakuzaanne (partitive singular)
yakuzoitanne (partitive plural)
yakuzojanne (partitive plural)
yakuzassanne (inessive singular)
yakuzoissanne (inessive plural)
yakuzastanne (elative singular)
yakuzoistanne (elative plural)
yakuzaanne (illative singular)
yakuzoihinne (illative plural)
yakuzallanne (adessive singular)
yakuzoillanne (adessive plural)
yakuzaltanne (ablative singular)
yakuzoiltanne (ablative plural)
yakuzallenne (allative singular)
yakuzoillenne (allative plural)
yakuzananne (essive singular)
yakuzoinanne (essive plural)
yakuzaksenne (singular translative)
yakuzoiksenne (plural translative)
yakuzattanne (abessive singular)
yakuzoittanne (abessive plural)
yakuzoinenne (comitative plural)
yakuzansa (nominative singular)
yakuzansa (nominative plural)
yakuzansa (accusative nominative singular)
yakuzansa (accusative nominative plural)
yakuzansa (accusative genitive singular)
yakuzansa (accusative genitive plural)
yakuzansa (genitive singular)
yakuzoidensa (genitive plural)
yakuzoittensa (genitive plural)
yakuzojensa (genitive plural)
yakuzainsa (genitive plural rare)
yakuzaansa (partitive singular)
yakuzoitaan (partitive plural)
yakuzojaan (partitive plural)
yakuzoitansa (partitive plural)
yakuzojansa (partitive plural)
yakuzassaan (inessive singular)
yakuzassansa (inessive singular)
yakuzoissaan (inessive plural)
yakuzoissansa (inessive plural)
yakuzastaan (elative singular)
yakuzastansa (elative singular)
yakuzoistaan (elative plural)
yakuzoistansa (elative plural)
yakuzaansa (illative singular)
yakuzoihinsa (illative plural)
yakuzallaan (adessive singular)
yakuzallansa (adessive singular)
yakuzoillaan (adessive plural)
yakuzoillansa (adessive plural)
yakuzaltaan (ablative singular)
yakuzaltansa (ablative singular)
yakuzoiltaan (ablative plural)
yakuzoiltansa (ablative plural)
yakuzalleen (allative singular)
yakuzallensa (allative singular)
yakuzoilleen (allative plural)
yakuzoillensa (allative plural)
yakuzanaan (essive singular)
yakuzanansa (essive singular)
yakuzoinaan (essive plural)
yakuzoinansa (essive plural)
yakuzakseen (singular translative)
yakuzaksensa (singular translative)
yakuzoikseen (plural translative)
yakuzoiksensa (plural translative)
yakuzattaan (abessive singular)
yakuzattansa (abessive singular)
yakuzoittaan (abessive plural)
yakuzoittansa (abessive plural)
yakuzoineen (comitative plural)
yakuzoinensa (comitative plural)


yakuza

yakuza (nominative singular)
yakuzy (nominative plural)
yakuzy (genitive singular)
yakuz (genitive plural)
yakuzie (dative singular)
yakuzom (dative plural)
yakuzę (accusative singular)
yakuzy (accusative plural)
yakuzą (instrumental singular)
yakuzami (instrumental plural)
yakuzie (locative singular)
yakuzach (locative plural)
yakuzo (singular vocative)
yakuzy (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English yakuza.


pogrom

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm).

A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.

pogrom

riot with the intent to massacre or terrorize a certain group, usually Jews


pogrom

pogrom (nominative singular)
pogromy (nominative plural)
pogromu (genitive singular)
pogromów (genitive plural)
pogromowi (dative singular)
pogromom (dative plural)
pogrom (accusative singular)
pogromy (accusative plural)
pogromem (instrumental singular)
pogromami (instrumental plural)
pogromie (locative singular)
pogromach (locative plural)
pogromie (singular vocative)
pogromy (plural vocative)


ghoul

Portuguese: ghoul

From Persian غول (ğul) from Arabic غُول (ḡūl). Compare French goule, of the same origin.

(derogatory, slang) A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritizing economic concerns.


off

en-adj

off (comparative more off, superlative most off)

more off (comparative)
most off (superlative)

(older Received Pronunciation, General American) -ɔːf

From Middle English of, from Old English of, af, æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“from, off, back”). Doublet of of.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots of, af (“off, away”), West Frisian af, ôf (“off, away”), Dutch af (“off, from”), German Low German of (“off, from”), German ab (“off, from”), Danish af (“of, off”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish av (“of, off”), Icelandic af (“of, off”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of, from”); and with Latin ab (“of, from, by”), Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from”), and others.

inh

This milk is off!

Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.


gryps

grypsik (diminutive)
gryps (nominative singular)
grypsy (nominative plural)
grypsu (genitive singular)
grypsów (genitive plural)
grypsowi (dative singular)
grypsom (dative plural)
gryps (accusative singular)
grypsy (accusative plural)
grypsem (instrumental singular)
grypsami (instrumental plural)
grypsie (locative singular)
grypsach (locative plural)
grypsie (singular vocative)
grypsy (plural vocative)

Deverbal from grypsnąć (“to snatch”), from German gripsen. Alternatively, borrowed from German Grips (“wit”).

(prison slang) secret message (clandestine communication between prisoners)


rapparee

from Irish rapaire, variant of ropaire (“cutpurse”).

And then he would relate stories of banshees, and robberies, and ghosts, and hair-breadth escapes, and 'rapparees,' and adventures in the wars of King James, which he heard told in his nonage by the old folk, long vanished, who remembered those troubles.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

(Ireland, historical or archaic) A bandit or brigand.


pirata

eo-head

pirata (accusative singular piratan, plural pirataj, accusative plural piratajn)

piratan (accusative singular)
pirataj (plural)
piratajn (accusative plural)


pirata

Borrowed from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”).

pirate (person who commits robbery at sea against other ships)


vice

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.

(law enforcement, slang) Clipping of vice squad.


tuer

tuer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
tuant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
tué (participle past)
tue (first-person indicative present singular)
tues (indicative present second-person singular)
tue (indicative present singular third-person)
tuons (first-person indicative plural present)
tuez (indicative plural present second-person)
tuent (indicative plural present third-person)
tuais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
tuais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
tuait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
tuions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
tuiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
tuaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
tuai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
tuas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
tua (historic indicative past singular third-person)
tuâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
tuâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
tuèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
tuerai (first-person future indicative singular)
tueras (future indicative second-person singular)
tuera (future indicative singular third-person)
tuerons (first-person future indicative plural)
tuerez (future indicative plural second-person)
tueront (future indicative plural third-person)
tuerais (conditional first-person singular)
tuerais (conditional second-person singular)
tuerait (conditional singular third-person)
tuerions (conditional first-person plural)
tueriez (conditional plural second-person)
tueraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
tue (first-person present singular subjunctive)
tues (present second-person singular subjunctive)
tue (present singular subjunctive third-person)
tuions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
tuiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
tuent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
tuasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
tuasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
tuât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
tuassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
tuassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
tuassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tue (imperative second-person singular)
tuons (first-person imperative plural)
tuez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French tuer, from Old French tuer (“kill, extinguish”), from Latin tūtārī (“avert, ward off”). Compare Occitan tuar.

Fumer tue.

Il les a tués! Il a tué tous!

il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué


perp

"We have the perp in custody," the policeman said.

Got himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp. Slid it right through the fabric of the perp’s shirt, gliding the flat of the blade along the base of his neck, and pinned him to a warped and bubbled expanse of vinyl siding on the wall of the house that the perp was trying to break into.

1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 6:


posse

Coordinate term: vigilante

He […] no sooner set his nose within the room to which he was directed, than the constable and his posse sprung upon him, before he had the least intimation of his design, or any opportunity of acting in his own defence.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

Mathews then appointed Morton as a deputy sheriff and after a posse had been selected, they went in pursuit of the criminals. Within a few hours, the posse overtook the thieves.

1986, Donald R. Lavash, Sheriff William Brady, Tragic Hero of the Lincoln County War, Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 77:

While Wyatt dismounted and aimed his shotgun at Brocius, the rest of his posse retreated.

2013, Andrew C. Isenberg, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, Hill and Wang, →ISBN, page 165:

(now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.


libel

en-noun

libel (countable and uncountable, plural libels)

From Middle English libel, from Old French libelle, from Latin libellus (“petition”, literally “booklet”).

uder

(countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

These provisions of law being in force, the steamer Rio Grande, owned, as was alleged, by persons in Mexico, being in the port of Mobile, in the Southern District of Alabama, certain materialmen, on the 26th of November, 1867, filed separate libels against her in the district court for the said district.

1873, United States Supreme Court, The Rio Grande, 86 U.S. 178,179

(law, countable) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.

a libel of forsaking [divorcement]

(countable) A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.


libel

en-verb

libel (third-person singular simple present libels, present participle (UK) libelling or (US) libeling, simple past and past participle (UK) libelled or (US) libeled)

libels (present singular third-person)
libelling (UK participle present)
libeling (US participle present)
libelled (UK participle past)
libelled (UK past)
libeled (US participle past)
libeled (US past)

He libelled her when he published that.

But vvhat ſo pure, vvhich envious tongues vvill ſpare? / Some vvicked vvits have libell'd all the fair.

1709, Alexander Pope, “January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale, from Chaucer”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 203:

To defame (someone), especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

To proceed against (goods, a ship, etc.) by filing a legal claim.


murderer

From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.

It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty

1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:


theft

en-noun

theft (countable and uncountable, plural thefts)

From Middle English theft, thefte, þefte, þefþe, þiefþe, Old English þīefþ, from Proto-West Germanic *þiubiþu, from Proto-Germanic *þiubiþō, from *þeubaz (“thief”), equivalent to thief + -th or thieve + -th. Cognate with Old Frisian thiuvethe, thiufthe (“theft”), dialectal Dutch diefte (“theft”), obsolete German Diebde (“theft”), Icelandic þýfð (“theft”).

resource theft

Bike theft is on the rise.

A suspect was arrested for the theft of a gold necklace.

If you steal a candy bar, you are guilty of theft, regardless of the value.

2007 July 5, Charles Hugh Smith, When Lies Become Normal, Is Truth Dead or Just in Hiding?:


calaboose

Tok Pisin: kalabus

From Cajun French calabousse, from Spanish calabozo. Doublet of calabozo.

The slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calaboose') which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?'

1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 56, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:

Bogator: (Still unbelieving) And you turned the calaboose over?

1937, Langston Hughes, When the Jack Hollers; or Careless Love: A Negro-Folk Comedy in Three Acts, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5. The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, Leslie Catherine Sanders (ed.), Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, pp. 392-3, Bogator: Aunt Billie, I thought you were in jail! Aunt Billie: I was, but I got tired of that little ole privy-sized jail, so I jest turned it over and come out! […]

[…] he had but recently come out of Calaboose, where he had been serving a term for debt […]

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 150:

Thereupon the Administrator in Rabaul almost outdid himself in defending corporal punishment […] and demanded drastic alternative punishments, for the "calaboose" (Kalabus: Tok Pisin for prison) "is the native's paradise."

1995, Hermann Hiery, chapter 2, in The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I, University of Hawaii Press, page 82:

The first calaboose or city jail used by the officers of the law was located on Cumberland Street, just below the vacant lot adjacent to the Star Steam Laundry.

2001, Sylvia D. Lynch, To Protect and Serve: History of the Knoxville Police Department, 1849-2001, Turner Publishing Company, page 79:

In his opinion it would seem that certain usages of colloquial English in Australia and New Zealand in the early 1800s could have been selected as conventional usages in the developing contact jargon. Many of these usages are still part of colloquial speech today in both of these countries, for example: fella for 'one', […] no good, orright, calaboose, […]

2004, Darrell T. Tryon, Jean-Michel Charpentier, chapter 5, in Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Origins, Growth and Development, Mouton de Gruyter, page 117:

(US, Australia, dialect) A prison or jail/gaol.


turnkey

He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.

1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86:

[…]they passed through an open door into a lobby, from which a heavy gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and which was guarded by a stout turnkey with the key in his hand, led at once into the interior of the prison.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

'Certainly not,' said the turnkey; and the first corroborated his statement.

1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers:

(archaic) A warder or jailer/gaoler; keeper of the keys in a prison.


godfather

From Middle English godfader, from Old English godfæder (“godfather”), equivalent to god- + father. Cognate with Old Saxon godfadar (“godfather”), Middle Dutch godvader (“godfather”), Danish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Swedish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Icelandic guðfaðir (“godfather”).


mechanic

From Middle English mekanyk (“mechanical”), from Old French mecanique, from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós, “pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, contrivance”); see machine.

der

But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto V:

(archaic) mechanical; precise but lifeless, as if performed by machine

Mechanic slaves,
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

Authors both Sacred and Profane we see complain of the Level of Learning, with Mechanick Ignorance: [...]

1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:

But then they did not wrong themſelves ſo much, / To make a God, a Hero, or a King, / (Stripp'd of his golden Crown and purple Robe) / Deſcend to a Mechanick Dialect, / Nor (to avoid ſuch meanneſs) ſoaring high / With empty ſound, and aiery notions fly; [...]

1680, Horace, translated by Earl of Roscommon [i.e., Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon], Horace’s Art of Poetry. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, page 17:

Sometimes he ply'd the ſtrong mechanic Tool, / Or rear'd the Fabrick from the fineſt Draught; [...]

1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza XII, page 47:

(obsolete) Of or relating to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar; base.


mechanic

His noble earnestness, his fidelity, his gallant shielding of her, his generous conquest of his own wrong and his own pride for her sake, are simply honourable, manly, and true. Nothing less worthy can be seen through the lustre of such qualities in the commonest mechanic, nothing less worthy can be seen in the best-born gentleman.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

The lower orders were freer than they had ever been – free […] to choose their own lay preachers, mechanics like the rest of the congregation.

1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 77:

(now chiefly historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.

This game has a mechanic where if you run toward a ledge you automatically jump off rather than just falling.

A device, command, or feature which allows someone to achieve a specific task.

I can do other things beside burglarizing. I'm a first-class crap dealer, I'm a pretty good card mechanic, pretty good dice mechanic.

1969, Bruce Jackson, A Thief's Primer, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 91:

It was so obvious. I mean, all of Nicky's half-assed mechanics, they were real signal happy.

1995, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Casino, spoken by Ace (Robert De Niro):

(gambling) A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.


fur

la-noun

fūr m or f (genitive fūris); third declension

fūr (canonical feminine masculine)
fūris (genitive)
fūr (nominative singular)
fūrēs (nominative plural)
fūris (genitive singular)
fūrum (genitive plural)
fūrī (dative singular)
fūribus (dative plural)
fūrem (accusative singular)
fūrēs (accusative plural)
fūre (ablative singular)
fūribus (ablative plural)
fūr (singular vocative)
fūrēs (plural vocative)

Aromanian: fur

Italian: furo

Old Occitan:

Catalan: fura, furó

Occitan: fura

Romanian: fur

⇒ Late Latin: fūrō, fūrōnis (“thief”)

Old French: fuiron (< *fūriō)

Old Galician-Portuguese: foron

Fala: furón

Galician: furón

Portuguese: furão

Old Spanish:

Spanish: hurón

→⇒ Central Franconian: Fürner (< *fūriō)

desc

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *furittum (“petty thief”)

Italian: furetto

Occitan: furet, huret, fura

desctree

Old French: furet, firet, furret
French: furet
→ Middle Dutch: furet, fret
Dutch: fret
→ German: Frett, Frettchen
→ Finnish: fretti
→ Middle English: furet, ferret
Scots: ferret
English: ferret

Romansch: furet

Sicilian: furittu

From Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”) (see ferō). Cognate with Ancient Greek φώρ (phṓr).


yoink

en-verb

yoink (third-person singular simple present yoinks, present participle yoinking, simple past and past participle yoinked)

yoinks (present singular third-person)
yoinking (participle present)
yoinked (participle past)
yoinked (past)

Carl Solomon yoinking around so frenziedly on a pogo stick that one night he put the end of it right through the floor into the restaurant below -- and all their girls, and their friends' girls, and their friends' friends, and even nameless others who may have just heard the hubbub and walkin in the door.

2013, Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture, →ISBN, page 62:


yoink

Yessir, we need you Yoinks. You're all we have, you are.

1969, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Saturday Review - Volume 52, page 49:

1999 March 28, Robert Mulroy, “You are all a bunch of yoinks who insult Budda!”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet):

The fact that these mentating yoinks don't know what it it, or worse, refuse to even acknowledge its existence pegs their state of awareness.

1999 November 11, Don James, “WHITE LIGHT”, in alt.zen (Usenet):

“What a bunch of yoinks we are, indeed,” Garvin said.

2012, Chris Bunch, Storm Force: Book Three of the Last Legion Series, →ISBN:

(slang) An ordinary person with nothing to recommend them.


yoink

Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV show The Simpsons; perhaps from yank, or imitative of the sound effect (a quick upward slide on a violin) that accompanies something being snatched in classic comedies.

Marge: But you look better, you don't sweat when you eat any more, and look – [holds up a wad of cash] You've saved more than a hundred dollars. I found it in your pants.
Homer: [snatches money] Yoink!

1993, “Duffless”, episode of the Simpsons [television]

Yoink! He snatched Granny Glee's frilly pink hat with his little feet.

2012, John Sazaklis, Candy Store Caper, →ISBN, page 24:

The way I've always done this stunt is to grab my partner and jump us over together. It's absolute hell on my knees. I lean toward Brando and raise my eyebrows. “Yoink.” “Definite yoink,” he replies, equally inspired.

2014, G. T. Almasi, Hammer of Angels: A Novel of Shadowstorm, →ISBN:

YOINK! Coach Pittman snatched the puck out of midair.

2015, Marty McKnight, Jim Nasium Is a Hockey Hazard, →ISBN, page 42:

2021 (November 13) "Olivia & Yunan" (Amphibia s3e7b) Yunan grabbing a crossbow
Ooh, ominous. After you, milady. Yoink!

(colloquial) Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, swipe, or snatch.


yoink

I'm sure that there is pinching, punching, eye gouging, yoinking, hair pulling and who knows what else underneath where eyes can't follow, but he comes out and hands the referee the ball and hits the line again.

2010, Sandy Burgess Livermore, Stealing Home, →ISBN:

The first time he yoinked at my arm all three of us–me, doctor and bed –flew across the room.

2012, Geordan Murphy, The Outsider, →ISBN:

That was the stress that yoinked the whole support gantry down— like trying to stop a medium-sized car with one pull.”

2013, Eric Flint, Ryk E. Spoor, Portal, →ISBN:

"Hey!" some AV kid said when I snuck up behind him and yoinked a microphone from his cart.

2017, Teddy Steinkellner, Two Roads from Here, →ISBN, page 109:

Jonas thinks he's such a free fucking spirit for sporting that Revolutionary War–esque overcoat he yoinked from that thrift shop in Philly.

2010, Brenna Ehrlich, Andrea Bartz, Stuff Hipsters Hate:

On my first four turns, I yoinked Australia. Playing Risk with these girls was so fun because in my whole life I've never seen two people happier.

2012, Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, →ISBN:

(colloquial) To take or win (something that others want).


electrocutioner

/ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuʃənɚ/

/ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuːʃənə/

Blend of electrocution + executioner, or electrocution + -er

U.S. Supreme Court: STATE OF LA. EX REL. FRANCIS v. RESWEBER, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) 329 U.S. 459 STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. FRANCIS v. RESWEBER, sheriff, et al. No. 142.
'Then the electrocutioner turned on the switch and when he did Willie Francis' lips puffed out and he groaned and jumped so that the chair came off the floor. Apparently the switch was turned on twice and then the condemned man yelled: 'Take it off. Let me breath." Affidavit of official witness Harold Resweber, dated May 23, 1946.

Smiling as I throw the switch that takes away their breath
I see life as an interruption to the tune of death

1978, The Residents (lyrics and music), “The Electrocutioner”, in Duck Stab/Buster & Glen, performed by Monica Ganas and Snakefinger:

an executioner who carries out an execution by means of electricity.


pork

en-noun

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)

→ Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).
Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken.
Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.
US politics sense is related to pork barrel.
The verb is from the black American form of poke.

der

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

criminal prosecution
criminal prosecution

(MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution


scrap

en-noun

scrap (countable and uncountable, plural scraps)

From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”).

(UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.

(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.


scrap

en-verb

scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping, simple past and past participle scrapped)

scraps (present singular third-person)
scrapping (participle present)
scrapped (participle past)
scrapped (past)

(intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.


population

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.

bor+

invånarantal (often expressed as "har X invånare" instead)

I would like to say something about the place I am doing time at. When I was placed in population, I met another woman and we immediately became good friends.

1985 April 6, Jackie Beattie, “More Power To Us All”, in Gay Community News, page 4:


frame

en-verb

frame (third-person singular simple present frames, present participle framing, simple past and past participle framed)

frames (present singular third-person)
framing (participle present)
framed (participle past)
framed (past)

→ Dutch: frame

→ German: framen

From Middle English framen, fremen, fremmen (“to construct, build, strengthen, refresh, perform, execute, profit, avail”), from Old English framian, fremian, fremman (“to profit, avail, advance”), from Proto-West Germanic *frammjan, from Proto-Germanic *framjaną (“to further, promote, perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”).
Cognate with Low German framen (“to commit, effect”), Danish fremme (“to promote, further, perform”), Swedish främja (“to promote, encourage, foster”), Icelandic fremja (“to commit”). More at from.

cog

The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her.

(transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.


solve

From Middle English solven, from Latin solvō.

The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 69”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

KEVIN: I decided a long time ago that just because I love Raymond, doesn't mean I have to love the people he works with. Good solve, Detective.

2014 February 4, The Party, Gil Ozeri and Gabe Liedman (writers), Michael Engler (director), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 16

“Hey, Mr. Quilt Bandit.”
 Ian smiled. “Nice solve, Nancy Drew.”

2017, Elodia Strain, The Dating Experiment, →ISBN:

(now rare, chiefly law enforcement) A solution; an explanation.


chai

Borrowed from Classical Persian چای (čāy)

bor+

(slang, Kenya) tea money, small bribe, petty bribe (likened to the cost, and function, of a cup of tea)


blag

The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun.

'What's he do, Micky?' / 'Armed blags is what I hear – s'posed to be one or two nice little tucks down to him that he didn't go for. He keeps well active. Someone told me he's putting one together now.[…]'

1977, G[ordon] F[rank] Newman, chapter 4, in Law and Order, St. Albans, Hertfordshire: Granada Publishing, published 1983, →ISBN, page 40:

Through Lenny I had met a character whom I shall call Billy. He was part of a blag team famous for a series of large-scale wage snatches.

1997, Stephen Smith, “Helter Skelter Years”, in Addict: An Incredible True Story with a Fairytale End, [United Kingdom]: Westworld International, →ISBN:

They're turning over any business that couldn't go running back to the Other People, sex shops and massage parlours, doing blags long after they went outta fashion, doing loads of drugs and not giving a fuck about keeping a low profile.

2000 April, J. J. Connolly, “April Fool’s Day 1997: Welcome to the Layer Cake”, in Layer Cake, London: Duck Editions, Duckworth Literary Entertainments, published July 2001, →ISBN, page 6:

Darlin' – I know your old man's keen for you to learn the ropes an' all that, but let's not forget who's running this blag, shall we?

2005, Echo Freer, chapter 1, in Diamond Geezers, London: Hodder Children’s Books, Hodder Headline, →ISBN, page 2:

(British, criminal slang) An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.


blag

en-verb

blag (third-person singular simple present blags, present participle blagging, simple past and past participle blagged)

blags (present singular third-person)
blagging (participle present)
blagged (participle past)
blagged (past)

(transitive, British, criminal slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.


jail

en-noun

jail (countable and uncountable, plural jails)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: जेल (jel)

Urdu: جیل (jel)

→ Punjabi: ਜੇਲ੍ਹ (jelh)

→ Welsh: jêl, jael

From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.

Taking a shower at the high school, Tommy (the Kitten) Cavanaugh kids Ugly Palmers. "Ugly, if you think the world is coming to an end," he says, "what are you wasting your time here at this jail for? You gonna need American history up there?"

1966, Robert Coover, “Part II, section 11”, in The Origin of the Brunists, 1st edition, page 218:

“I’m out!” That, of course, is an excerpt from Robert Durst’s children’s books [sic], Goodbye Jail. “Goodbye money. Goodbye bail. I killed them all, but goodbye jail. Of course! Of course!”

2015 June 7, “Bail”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 16, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.

2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:

pidätys

usually short-term, not based on conviction

(horse racing, uncountable) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).

horse racing: condition of not being able to run at another track for some period of time

väliaikainen kilpailurajoitus myynnin jälkeen


truncheon

/ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/

/ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/

From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.

Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword / The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 60:

A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.

полицейска палка

a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer

Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left[…].

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.

Truncheons of seven or eight feet long, thrust two feet into the earth […] when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground

1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.


мужик

ru-noun+

мужи́к • (mužík) m anim (genitive мужика́, nominative plural мужики́, genitive plural мужико́в, relational adjective мужи́цкий or мужи́чий, diminutive мужичо́к, augmentative мужичи́ще, pejorative мужичо́нка or мужичи́шка)

мужи́к (canonical)
mužík (romanization)
мужика́ (genitive)
мужики́ (nominative plural)
мужико́в (genitive plural)
мужи́цкий (adjective relational)
мужи́чий (adjective relational)
мужичо́к (diminutive)
мужичи́ще (augmentative)
мужичо́нка (pejorative)
мужичи́шка (pejorative)
мужи́к (nominative singular)
мужики́ (nominative plural)
мужика́ (genitive singular)
мужико́в (genitive plural)
мужику́ (dative singular)
мужика́м (dative plural)
мужика́ (accusative singular)
мужико́в (accusative plural)
мужико́м (instrumental singular)
мужика́ми (instrumental plural)
мужике́ (prepositional singular)
мужика́х (plural prepositional)

→ Armenian: մուժիկ (mužik)

→ Azerbaijani: mujik

→ Persian: موژیک (mužik)

→ English: mujik, muzhik

→ French: moujik

→ Georgian: მუჯიკი (muǯiḳi)

→ German: Muschik, Mushik

→ Polish: mużyk

→ Ubykh: мыжыӄ (məẑəq)

From муж (muž, “man (dated); husband”) + -ик (-ik).

af

(criminal slang) ordinary convict working conscientiously in a prison camp


charge

en-verb

charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)

charges (present singular third-person)
charging (participle present)
charged (participle past)
charged (past)

desc

→ Cantonese: 叉廚／叉厨 (caa¹ cyu⁴), 叉 (caa¹)

→ Kashubian: czardżowac (United States)

→ Malay: caj, cas

→ Swahili: chaji

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.

yükləmək

to place a burden upon, to assign a duty

yükləmək

to load equipment with material required for its use

I'm charging you with assault and battery.

(transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

اِتَّهَمَ

criminal law, law enforcement: to formally accuse of a crime


warez

en-verb

warez (third-person singular simple present warezes, present participle warezing, simple past and past participle warezed)

warezes (present singular third-person)
warezing (participle present)
warezed (participle past)
warezed (past)

The leetspeak form of wares, as a contraction of software.

Many of these keys are, obviously, being used by people who've warezed XP, but there's also a reasonably large number of software professionals and refuseniks who have used them even though they have a legitimately bought version of XP.

2002 June 7, John Lettice, “MS turns up heat on warezed WinXP copies”, in The Register:

Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player [title]

2004 November 12, Timothy Lord, “Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player”, in Slashdot:

(Internet slang, leetspeak, dated) To obtain a copy of (software or other works of authorship) illegally.


blackout

en-noun

blackout (countable and uncountable, plural blackouts)

→ French: blackout

→ German: Blackout

→ Portuguese: blecaute, blackout

(slang, criminology, rare) A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime.


lagging

lagging (usually uncountable, plural laggings)

"Whether you'll get a nine or a lagging depends on the answer you give me, Mrs. Inglethorne."

1926, Edgar Wallace, The Square Emerald:

(slang, countable) A prison sentence, originally one of at least three years.


prison

prison (countable and uncountable, plural prisons)

From Middle English prisoun, prison, a borrowing from Old French prison, from Latin prehensiōnem, accusative singular of prehensiō, from the verb prehendō. Doublet of prehension.

The cold stone walls of the prison had stood for over a century.

A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

абахҭа

place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes

Prison was a harrowing experience for him.


shop steal

en-verb

shop steal (third-person singular simple present shop steals, present participle shop stealing, simple past shop stole, past participle shop stolen)

shop steals (present singular third-person)
shop stealing (participle present)
shop stole (past)
shop stolen (participle past)

If you detect a person shop stealing, report it to the police.

For example, shop stealing cases of the kind already described are regularly dealt with at the scene and, afterwards, at a police station without any involvement of parents or guardians.

1983, John A. Seymour, Juvenile Justice in South Australia, page 15:

I have also in the past had court orders taken out on our known shop stealing customers to prevent them from entering my store.

2001 April 25, Doggy, “Bag Search Refusal”, in aus.legal^([https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/aus.legal/5DP9odlSr10[1-25]]) (Usenet):


rap

From RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”).

(US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.


blitz

Unadapted borrowing from English blitz, shortened from English blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.

random checkpoint (a hastily set-up point along a road where the police stop random drivers)


shoplift

shoplift (third-person singular simple present shoplifts, present participle shoplifting, simple past and past participle shoplifted)

shoplifts (present singular third-person)
shoplifting (participle present)
shoplifted (participle past)
shoplifted (past)

She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons

2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker:

(transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.