faarao

faarao (nominative singular)
faaraot (nominative plural)
faarao (accusative nominative singular)
faaraot (accusative nominative plural)
faaraon (accusative genitive singular)
faaraot (accusative genitive plural)
faaraon (genitive singular)
faaraoiden (genitive plural)
faaraoitten (genitive plural)
faaraota (partitive singular)
faaraoita (partitive plural)
faaraossa (inessive singular)
faaraoissa (inessive plural)
faaraosta (elative singular)
faaraoista (elative plural)
faaraoon (illative singular)
faaraoihin (illative plural)
faaraolla (adessive singular)
faaraoilla (adessive plural)
faaraolta (ablative singular)
faaraoilta (ablative plural)
faaraolle (allative singular)
faaraoille (allative plural)
faaraona (essive singular)
faaraoina (essive plural)
faaraoksi (singular translative)
faaraoiksi (plural translative)
faaraotta (abessive singular)
faaraoitta (abessive plural)
faaraoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
faaraoni (nominative singular)
faaraoni (nominative plural)
faaraoni (accusative nominative singular)
faaraoni (accusative nominative plural)
faaraoni (accusative genitive singular)
faaraoni (accusative genitive plural)
faaraoni (genitive singular)
faaraoideni (genitive plural)
faaraoitteni (genitive plural)
faaraotani (partitive singular)
faaraoitani (partitive plural)
faaraossani (inessive singular)
faaraoissani (inessive plural)
faaraostani (elative singular)
faaraoistani (elative plural)
faaraooni (illative singular)
faaraoihini (illative plural)
faaraollani (adessive singular)
faaraoillani (adessive plural)
faaraoltani (ablative singular)
faaraoiltani (ablative plural)
faaraolleni (allative singular)
faaraoilleni (allative plural)
faaraonani (essive singular)
faaraoinani (essive plural)
faaraokseni (singular translative)
faaraoikseni (plural translative)
faaraottani (abessive singular)
faaraoittani (abessive plural)
faaraoineni (comitative plural)
faaraosi (nominative singular)
faaraosi (nominative plural)
faaraosi (accusative nominative singular)
faaraosi (accusative nominative plural)
faaraosi (accusative genitive singular)
faaraosi (accusative genitive plural)
faaraosi (genitive singular)
faaraoidesi (genitive plural)
faaraoittesi (genitive plural)
faaraotasi (partitive singular)
faaraoitasi (partitive plural)
faaraossasi (inessive singular)
faaraoissasi (inessive plural)
faaraostasi (elative singular)
faaraoistasi (elative plural)
faaraoosi (illative singular)
faaraoihisi (illative plural)
faaraollasi (adessive singular)
faaraoillasi (adessive plural)
faaraoltasi (ablative singular)
faaraoiltasi (ablative plural)
faaraollesi (allative singular)
faaraoillesi (allative plural)
faaraonasi (essive singular)
faaraoinasi (essive plural)
faaraoksesi (singular translative)
faaraoiksesi (plural translative)
faaraottasi (abessive singular)
faaraoittasi (abessive plural)
faaraoinesi (comitative plural)
faaraomme (nominative singular)
faaraomme (nominative plural)
faaraomme (accusative nominative singular)
faaraomme (accusative nominative plural)
faaraomme (accusative genitive singular)
faaraomme (accusative genitive plural)
faaraomme (genitive singular)
faaraoidemme (genitive plural)
faaraoittemme (genitive plural)
faaraotamme (partitive singular)
faaraoitamme (partitive plural)
faaraossamme (inessive singular)
faaraoissamme (inessive plural)
faaraostamme (elative singular)
faaraoistamme (elative plural)
faaraoomme (illative singular)
faaraoihimme (illative plural)
faaraollamme (adessive singular)
faaraoillamme (adessive plural)
faaraoltamme (ablative singular)
faaraoiltamme (ablative plural)
faaraollemme (allative singular)
faaraoillemme (allative plural)
faaraonamme (essive singular)
faaraoinamme (essive plural)
faaraoksemme (singular translative)
faaraoiksemme (plural translative)
faaraottamme (abessive singular)
faaraoittamme (abessive plural)
faaraoinemme (comitative plural)
faaraonne (nominative singular)
faaraonne (nominative plural)
faaraonne (accusative nominative singular)
faaraonne (accusative nominative plural)
faaraonne (accusative genitive singular)
faaraonne (accusative genitive plural)
faaraonne (genitive singular)
faaraoidenne (genitive plural)
faaraoittenne (genitive plural)
faaraotanne (partitive singular)
faaraoitanne (partitive plural)
faaraossanne (inessive singular)
faaraoissanne (inessive plural)
faaraostanne (elative singular)
faaraoistanne (elative plural)
faaraoonne (illative singular)
faaraoihinne (illative plural)
faaraollanne (adessive singular)
faaraoillanne (adessive plural)
faaraoltanne (ablative singular)
faaraoiltanne (ablative plural)
faaraollenne (allative singular)
faaraoillenne (allative plural)
faaraonanne (essive singular)
faaraoinanne (essive plural)
faaraoksenne (singular translative)
faaraoiksenne (plural translative)
faaraottanne (abessive singular)
faaraoittanne (abessive plural)
faaraoinenne (comitative plural)
faaraonsa (nominative singular)
faaraonsa (nominative plural)
faaraonsa (accusative nominative singular)
faaraonsa (accusative nominative plural)
faaraonsa (accusative genitive singular)
faaraonsa (accusative genitive plural)
faaraonsa (genitive singular)
faaraoidensa (genitive plural)
faaraoittensa (genitive plural)
faaraotaan (partitive singular)
faaraotansa (partitive singular)
faaraoitaan (partitive plural)
faaraoitansa (partitive plural)
faaraossaan (inessive singular)
faaraossansa (inessive singular)
faaraoissaan (inessive plural)
faaraoissansa (inessive plural)
faaraostaan (elative singular)
faaraostansa (elative singular)
faaraoistaan (elative plural)
faaraoistansa (elative plural)
faaraoonsa (illative singular)
faaraoihinsa (illative plural)
faaraollaan (adessive singular)
faaraollansa (adessive singular)
faaraoillaan (adessive plural)
faaraoillansa (adessive plural)
faaraoltaan (ablative singular)
faaraoltansa (ablative singular)
faaraoiltaan (ablative plural)
faaraoiltansa (ablative plural)
faaraolleen (allative singular)
faaraollensa (allative singular)
faaraoilleen (allative plural)
faaraoillensa (allative plural)
faaraonaan (essive singular)
faaraonansa (essive singular)
faaraoinaan (essive plural)
faaraoinansa (essive plural)
faaraokseen (singular translative)
faaraoksensa (singular translative)
faaraoikseen (plural translative)
faaraoiksensa (plural translative)
faaraottaan (abessive singular)
faaraottansa (abessive singular)
faaraoittaan (abessive plural)
faaraoittansa (abessive plural)
faaraoineen (comitative plural)
faaraoinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈfɑ̝ːrɑ̝o̞]

The letter F in the Finnish spelling alphabet.


chingar

es-verb

chingar (first-person singular present chingo, first-person singular preterite chingué, past participle chingado)

chingo (first-person present singular)
chingué (first-person preterite singular)
chingado (participle past)
chingar (infinitive)
chingando (gerund)
chingado (masculine participle past singular)
chingada (feminine participle past singular)
chingados (masculine participle past plural)
chingadas (feminine participle past plural)
chingo (first-person indicative present singular)
chingas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
chingás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
chinga (indicative present singular third-person)
chingamos (first-person indicative plural present)
chingáis (indicative plural present second-person)
chingan (indicative plural present third-person)
chingaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
chingabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
chingaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
chingábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
chingabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
chingaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
chingué (first-person indicative preterite singular)
chingaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
chingó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
chingamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
chingasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
chingaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
chingaré (first-person future indicative singular)
chingarás (future indicative second-person singular)
chingará (future indicative singular third-person)
chingaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
chingaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
chingarán (future indicative plural third-person)
chingaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
chingarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
chingaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
chingaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
chingaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
chingarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
chingue (first-person present singular subjunctive)
chingues (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
chingués (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
chingue (present singular subjunctive third-person)
chinguemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
chinguéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
chinguen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
chingara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
chingaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
chingara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
chingáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
chingarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
chingaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
chingase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
chingases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
chingase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
chingásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
chingaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
chingasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
chingare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
chingares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
chingare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
chingáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
chingareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
chingaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
chinga (imperative informal second-person singular)
chingá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
chingue (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
chingue (imperative singular third-person)
chinguemos (first-person imperative plural)
chingad (imperative plural second-person)
chinguen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
chinguen (imperative plural third-person)
chingues (imperative negative second-person singular)
chingue (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
chingue (imperative negative singular third-person)
chinguemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
chinguéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
chinguen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
chinguen (imperative negative plural third-person)
chingarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
chingarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
chingarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
chingarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
chingarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
chingaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
chingarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
chingarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
chingarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
chingarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
chingarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
chingarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
chingarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
chingarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
chingaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
chingarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
chingarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
chingarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
chingándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
chingándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
chingándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
chingándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
chingándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
chingándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
chingándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
chingándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
chingándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
chingándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
chingándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
chingándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
chingándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
chingándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
chingándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
chingándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
chingándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
chingándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
chíngame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
chíngate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
chíngale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
chínganos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
chíngales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
chíngame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
chíngate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
chíngalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
chíngala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
chínganos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
chíngalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
chíngalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
chingame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
chingate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
chingale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
chinganos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
chingales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
chingame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
chingate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
chingalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
chingala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
chinganos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
chingalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
chingalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
chíngueme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
chínguele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
chínguese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
chínguenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
chíngueles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
chíngueme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
chínguelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
chínguela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
chínguese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
chínguenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
chínguelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
chínguelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
chinguémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
chinguémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
chinguémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
chinguémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
chinguémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
chinguémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
chinguémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
chinguémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
chinguémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
chinguémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
chinguémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
chinguémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
chingadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
chingadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
chingadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
chingaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
chingadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
chingadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
chingadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
chingadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
chingadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
chingaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
chingadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
chingadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
chínguenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
chínguenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
chínguennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
chínguenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
chínguense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
chínguenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
chínguenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
chínguenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
chínguennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
chínguenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
chínguenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
chínguense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

According to the Real Academia Española, from Caló čingarár (“to fight”), from Romani chingarar, likely from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀘𑀺𑀗𑁆𑀖𑀸𑀝 (*ciṅghāṭa), *𑀘𑀺𑀗𑁆𑀖𑀸𑀭 (*ciṅghāra, “noise, scream”), probably of onomatopoeic origin similar to that of Sanskrit चीत्कार (cītkāra, “cries, noise”), with semantic shift "noise, scream" > "row, quarrel" > "brawl, fight" > "screw, bother". Compare also Hindi चिंघाड़ (ciṅghāṛ, “shriek, roar”).

cog

to engage in sexual intercourse, to fuck


犯人

→ Lingao: fam² jin¹

/fän⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/fæ̃⁴⁴ ʐəŋ²⁴/

/fam⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ŋin¹¹/

/fæ̃⁴⁵ ʐəŋ¹¹/

/huan²²⁻²¹ laŋ¹³/

/huan³³⁻¹¹ laŋ²⁴/

/huan²²⁻²¹ laŋ²⁴/

/huan³³⁻²¹ laŋ²³/

/huan³³⁻¹¹ laŋ³³/

/huan³³⁻²¹ laŋ³³/

/huaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/

/ɸan⁴⁵ ʐən¹³/

/fän⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/fæ̃⁴⁴ ʐəŋ²⁴/

/fam⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ŋin¹¹/

/fæ̃⁴⁵ ʐəŋ¹¹/

/huan²²⁻²¹ laŋ¹³/

/huan³³⁻¹¹ laŋ²⁴/

/huan²²⁻²¹ laŋ²⁴/

/huan³³⁻²¹ laŋ²³/

/huan³³⁻¹¹ laŋ³³/

/huan³³⁻²¹ laŋ³³/

/huaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/

/ɸan⁴⁵ ʐən¹³/

看管犯人


chorizo

→ Basque: txorizo

→ Catalan: xoriço

→ English: chorizo

→ French: chorizo

→ Swedish: chorizo

Borrowed from Portuguese chouriço or Galician chourizo, either way from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço, of uncertain origin. First attested in Spanish in 1604.


murderous

en-adj

murderous (comparative more murderous, superlative most murderous)

more murderous (comparative)
most murderous (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-murderous.wav

From murder + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns denoting possession or presence of a quality).

suffix

murderous behaviour

She gave me a murderous look.

Is any man loth to leave his priſon? or to remove his dwelling from cruel enemies? or to ſcape the hands of murderous robbers? Do we take the world indeed for our priſon? our cruel, ſpoyling, murderous foe? and yet we are loth to leave it?

1659, Richard Baxter, “Reproving Our Unwillingness to Die”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], 8th edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, […], →OCLC, part IV, section V, page 603:

De Salez her Husband ſtriving and ſtrugling for life againſt the pangs of death; fear and haſt (contrary to her intent and mind) had ſo made his murtherous wifes hand ſhake and tremble, as ſhe did not ſo fully cut his throat-bole, but he could yet both cry and groan, which he did very mournfully, and which indeed was ſoon over-heard by a man and a maid-ſervant of his, […]

1662, John Reynolds, “History XI”, in The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther. […] Book III, London: […] A. M. for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 152:

Adam alſo was the High Prieſt, and received Authority from God, to teach the ſucceeding Generations of Men how to worſhip God, and what Sacrifices were to be offered by Cain and Abel, and all Poſterity. By which Sacrifices were brought into all Nations, to apply the Blood of the Lamb, ſlain from the foundation of the World, in the unalterable Purpoſes of God, to the Conſciences of all Men for the Remiſſion of their Sins, and to Excommunicate murderous Cain from the preſence of the Lord, […]

1711, Obedience to Civil Government Clearly Stated: […], London: […] George Strahan, […], →OCLC, page 34:

Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal.

قَتُول

likely to commit murder — see also homicidal


jailbird

From jail + bird, circa 1600. Compare gallows bird.

у́рка

criminal slang; opposed to political prisoner


nepotism

en-noun

nepotism (countable and uncountable, plural nepotisms)

Borrowed from French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from Latin nepōs (“nephew”), a reference to the practice of popes appointing relatives (most often nephews) as cardinals during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Nepotism can get you very far in the world if you've got the right connections.

Now retailers even demand deslotting or failure fees, a penalty for trial products that fail to meet their sales objectives. The struggle over display space heavily favors the incumbents and encourages what might be called brand nepotism.

1989, Report on Business Magazine, volume 6, numbers 1-6, page 100:

Mr Chen - a member of the national politburo as well as the Shanghai boss - is accused of nepotism and corruption on a grand scale: protecting political allies, granting preferment to his family and looting Shanghai's pension fund.

2006 September 27, “China airbrushes Chen”, in Financial Times:

The favoring of relatives (most strictly) or also personal friends (more broadly) because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities.

nepotizëm

favoring of relatives or personal friends


hush money

The scandal was even greater when it was announced that hush money had been paid to keep the faulty products unannounced.

He holds, I am given to understand, a small official appointment in the colony. If it were known that he had received hush money, he would be ruined.

1854, James A. Maitland, chapter XXIX, in The Cabin Boy's Story, Garrett & Co., page 297:

Is paying hush money a crime? In most cases, the answer is no. Hush-money agreements, otherwise known as nondisclosure agreements, have long been used by companies and private individuals to avoid litigation and keep embarrassing information confidential.

2023 April 4, Michael Rothfeld, “Private or Political? Charges Over Hush Money Hinge on Payment’s Purpose”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Lawyers defending Mr. Trump, who denies he had sex with her, will likely argue that his employees were responsible for the paper trail that falsely described the reimbursement of the hush money as legal fees for Mr. Cohen.

2024 April 21, Michael Rothfeld, “Tracing the Trail of Hush-Money Deals That Led to Trump’s Prosecution”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A bribe to maintain secrecy (to prevent bad publicity or to prevent the discovery of a crime).


clink

From the Clink prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.


gunman

"I've known a heap of gun fighters in my day. An' Jean Isbel don't ran true to class. Shore there never was a gunman who'd risk cripplin' his right hand by sluggin' anybody."

1921, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in To The Last Man:

A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer.


halter

English: halter

Scots: helter, heltir, hilter

Inherited from Old English hælftre, hælfter, from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā.

(rare) A rope tied in a noose for hanging.


suttee

suttee (countable and uncountable, plural suttees)

From Sanskrit सती (satī́, “good and virtuous or faithful wife”), from सत् (sát, “true, good, right etc.”). In English usage since 1786. Doublet of sin.

uder

(historical, Hinduism) The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion.


blind pig

The Web address isn't officially registered, it's a blind pig.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 197:

(Internet) A Web address on the Deep Web that piggybacks on a public domain but is not visible to the system.


mug shot

Originally American; compound of mug (“face”) + shot (“snapshot”). Compare mug (“portrait”).

All Summer Johnny was Prince of the penny arcade, arms around me on the tilt-a-whirl, mug-shot grins in the quarter photo booth, twanging his guitar for street kids on the hill who scored baggies of hashish and Panama Red.

2002, Carolyne Wright, Greatest Hits 1975-2001, page 32:

The buddy list has a bunch of visual status clues. Your buddy may have included a mug shot, perhaps through Photo Booth.

2006 October 2, Edward C. Baig, Macs For Dummies, page 204:

All these parameters of the series (the mug shot, the means of mechanical reproduction, the desirability of the outlawed, the reversal of law and desire and even the photo booth) are unmistakably present in Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers.

2008, Johanne Lamoureux, PRECARIOUS VISUALITIES New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Ending Myths and the Catholic Outing of Andy Warhol, page 114:

After waiting some five hours to be called forward on an unusually hot, humid Summer’s day in London (I believe temperatures soared to around 30 degrees Centigrade or around 90F), I presented my mug shot to the perky female jobs-worth official.

2022 July 20, Marianne Paley, Betrayed!:

A photograph taken of the head and shoulders, often from the front and in profile, usually taken in conjunction with somebody's arrest.


spiv

Unknown. Perhaps from spiff, spiffy. Spiv was the nickname of Henry Bagster, a Londoner arrested a number of times in 1904-6 for activities as described below, and may have been the archetype. Also possibly from Romani spiv (“sparrow”), as active and opportunistic.

(UK, Ireland, historical) A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods, especially during World War II.


stealing

en-noun

stealing (countable and uncountable, plural stealings)

(uncountable) The action of the verb to steal, theft.


defalcate

en-verb

defalcate (third-person singular simple present defalcates, present participle defalcating, simple past and past participle defalcated)

defalcates (present singular third-person)
defalcating (participle present)
defalcated (participle past)
defalcated (past)

1530s, in sense “to lop off”, from Medieval Latin dēfalcātus, perfect passive participle of dēfalcō (“cut or lop off”), from Latin dē (“off”) + falx (“sickle, scythe, pruning hook”), from which also English falcate (“sickle-shaped”).

One would have thought the natural method in a plan of reformation vvould be, to take the preſent exiſting eſtimates as they ſtand; and then to ſhevv vvhat may be practicably and ſafely defalcated from them.

1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 42:

To deduct or take away (a part of income, money, rents, etc.).


conman

confidence trickster
confidence trickster


DCC

en-noun

DCC (countable and uncountable, plural DCCs)

deputy chief constable
deputy chief constable#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of deputy chief constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.


Established in the United Kingdom as the first emergency service number in the world, initially chosen because of its suitability at a time of rotary-dial telephones.

(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore, colloquial, metonymically) Emergency services; emergency service personnel.


morþor

morþor (nominative singular)
morþru (nominative plural)
morþor (accusative singular)
morþru (accusative plural)
morþres (genitive singular)
morþra (genitive plural)
morþre (dative singular)
morþrum (dative plural)

Middle English: morther

English: murther

English: murder

From Proto-West Germanic *morþr. Compare morþ.
Cognates:
(Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂 (maurþr), Old Norse myrða), Latin mors, Old Irish marb).


agent provocateur

agent provocateur (plural agents provocateurs)

Borrowed from French agent provocateur (literally “provocative agent”).

bor

"This agent-provocateur business is quite foreign to British justice."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

I was told afterwards—quite possibly it was true—that agents provocateurs were touching off masses of explosive in order to increase the general noise and panic.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

Suspecting that the man was an agent provocateur sent by the Prince, Pottinger told him that regrettably he had neither the knowledge nor the authority to instruct him in this or any other religion.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 50:

The criminalisation of protest has been aided by the director of public prosecution's recent guidelines on prosecuting protesters, which fail to account for the role of the police in prompting violence at demonstrations through tactics such as kettling, the use of batons, agents provocateurs and undercover policing.

2012 March 25, Nadine El-Enany, The Guardian:

A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group, particularly by encouraging or committing illegal acts to discredit the group or expose them to prosecution; an instigator, troublemaker.

պրովոկատոր

a person who disrupts a group's activities from within

(beépített / civil ruhás rendőrségi) provokátor/provokatőr


agent provocateur

fr-noun

agent provocateur m (plural agents provocateurs, feminine agente provocatrice)

agents provocateurs (plural)
agente provocatrice (feminine)

→ English: agent provocateur

→ German: Agent Provocateur

desc

آژان پرووکاتور

→ Persian: آژان پرووکاتور (âžân porovokâtor)

→ Turkish: ajan provokatör

agent provocateur
agent provocateur#English

agent provocateur; instigator, troublemaker


owling

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(historical) The smuggling of sheep or wool out of England.


boy in blue

Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).

2006, David W. Clark, Joe's Letters, page 38:

(UK, air force slang, dated) A member of the air force.


victimless crime

en-noun

victimless crime (plural victimless crimes)

An act that is prohibited by law, yet which neither directly harms nor violates the rights of any specific person, although some people may claim it harms society as a whole.


stuffer

One who conceals a package of illegal drugs by swallowing them.


vega

non-conj-blank-full

Conjugation of vega — active (strong􂀽 class 1)

Conjugation of vega — mediopassive (strong􂀽 class 1)

non-conj-table

vega (infinitive)
vegandi (participle present)
veginn (participle past)
veg (first-person present singular)
vá (first-person past singular)
vegr (present second-person singular)
vátt (past second-person singular)
vegr (present singular third-person)
vá (past singular third-person)
vegum (first-person plural present)
vágum (first-person past plural)
vegið (plural present second-person)
váguð (past plural second-person)
vega (plural present third-person)
vágu (past plural third-person)
vega (first-person present singular)
væga (first-person past singular)
vegir (present second-person singular)
vægir (past second-person singular)
vegi (present singular third-person)
vægi (past singular third-person)
vegim (first-person plural present)
vægim (first-person past plural)
vægið (past plural second-person)
vegi (plural present third-person)
vægi (past plural third-person)
veg (present second-person singular)
vegask (infinitive)
vegandisk (participle present)
vegizk (participle past)
vegumk (first-person present singular)
vágumk (first-person past singular)
vegsk (present second-person singular)
vázk (past second-person singular)
vegsk (present singular third-person)
vásk (past singular third-person)
vegumsk (first-person plural present)
vágumsk (first-person past plural)
vegizk (plural present second-person)
váguzk (past plural second-person)
vegask (plural present third-person)
vágusk (past plural third-person)
vægumk (first-person past singular)
vegisk (present second-person singular)
vægisk (past second-person singular)
vegisk (present singular third-person)
vægisk (past singular third-person)
vegimsk (first-person plural present)
vægimsk (first-person past plural)
vægizk (past plural second-person)
vegisk (plural present third-person)
vægisk (past plural third-person)

Icelandic: vega

Danish: veje

Old Swedish: vægha

From Proto-Germanic *wiganą (“to fight, to battle”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to fight”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (weihan).


charger

/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ/

-ɑː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)

From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge + -er.

dækketallerken

a large platter under the dinner plate in a formal dinner setting

Miller had a new executive officer, a real charger, as they're known in the trade, who was looking into all aspects of the operation up there.

1980, Bill Gulley, Mary Ellen Reese, Breaking Cover, page 161:

Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”)


詐欺

詐欺に遭う

詐欺を働く

詐欺がまかり通る


eenheid

nl-noun

eenheid f (plural eenheden, diminutive eenheidje n)

eenheden (plural)
eenheidje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: eenheid

From Middle Dutch eenheit, likely calque of Latin ūnitās. Some modern senses likely derive from German Einheit. Equivalent to een + -heid, analogous to English oneness.

De speciale eenheid van de politie werd ingezet om de gijzelnemer te overmeesteren.

The police's special unit was deployed to apprehend the hostage-taker.

(military, law enforcement) unit (squad or party; member of a military organisation or law enforcement organisation; division)


politie

Afrikaans: polisie

→ Lokono: bariri

→ Caribbean Hindustani: polisi

→ Caribbean Javanese: polisi

→ Indonesian: polisi

→ Papiamentu: polis

→ West Frisian: polysje, plysje

From Middle Dutch policie, from Middle French policie.


NPTA

Initialism of National Police and Troopers Association.


goonda

‘I cannot imagine the minds of goondas.’

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 31:


riba

From Hausa r̃ìba, or Hausa r̃ībā̀ ultimately from Arabic رِبًا (riban) or Arabic رِبْح (ribḥ).


dark figure

In exploring the dark figure of crime, the primary question is not how much of it becomes revealed but rather what will be the selective properties of any particular innovation for its illumination.

1977, US Congressional House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Suspension of the National Crime Survey, page 15:

The dark figure concerning these criminal offences, is very high and the attitude towards reporting such cases is not constant.

1992, Hisao Katoh, Louise I. Shelley, Hisao Katō, Hans-Günther Heiland, Crime and Control in Comparative Perspectives, Walter de Gruyter, page 49:

By definition, they ignore the unreported “dark figure” of crime. We turn now to a second source of official crime data.

2000, Piers Beirne, James W. Messerschmidt, Criminology:

Arguing that the dark figure is larger, perhaps very large (“The cases we know about are just the tip of the iceberg!”), makes any estimate seem possible, even reasonable.

2012, Joel Best, Damned Lies and Statistics […] , University of California Press, →ISBN, page 37:

(criminology, statistics) The estimated number of unreported criminal cases.


superintendent

From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens, a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos); thence being distantly related to English bishop.


revere

English: reaver

Scots: refar (obsolete)

⇒ Yola: rivery

Inherited from Old English rēafere; equivalent to reven + -er.

Gif tƿa men oþer ·iii· coman ridend to an tun · al þe tunſcipe flugæn foꝛ heom. ƿenden ð hi ƿæron ræuereſ.

p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

If two or three men came riding into a town, the whole town ran away from them, concluding that they were robbers.

A robber or burglar; one who steals or thieves.


black market

Ca. 1930, probably a calque of German Schwarzmarkt, which is attested from the 1910s. Compare Schwärzer (“smuggler”, 18th c.).

Peace and order will not be tolerated. Start saving your cash for the black market, folks, you're gonna need it.

2004, George Carlin, “THE FANATICS WILL WIN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 135:

In District 12, a dirt-poor coal-mining community that looks like a Dorothea Lange photograph, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) quietly rebels against the system by hunting game in a forbidden area with her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and trading it on the black market.

2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:

Increasing numbers of people are turning to a growing black market for food to supplement their diets as prices rocket, experts have said.

2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls.

swartmark

trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls


glasshouse

From Middle English glasehows, glashous, glashows; equivalent to glass + house.

people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

(British military slang) A military prison.

оранжерия

building made of glass in which plants are grown


jockey

The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.

(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.


ringing

en-noun

ringing (countable and uncountable, plural ringings)


coating

The bogey gave him a right coating.

1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501:

(law enforcement slang) A telling-off; a reprimand.


slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

kalteva lokero

depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors

(Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.

(US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.


balai polis

ms-noun

balai polis (Jawi spelling بالاي ڤوليس, plural balai-balai polis, informal 1st possessive balai polisku, 2nd possessive balai polismu, 3rd possessive balai polisnya)

بالاي ڤوليس (Jawi)
balai-balai polis (plural)
balai polis ku (first-person informal possessive)
balai polis mu (possessive second-person)
balai polis nya (possessive third-person)

balai (“house, station, department”) + polis (“police”).

compound

(Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore) police station (building of police force)


kidnapping

en-noun

kidnapping (countable and uncountable, plural kidnappings)

(crime) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.

rrëmbim

the crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom


trespasser

Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.

1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:

The human is a land animal, not an aquatic one, and he is therefore a trespasser in the water.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 16:


stockade

From French estocade, equivalent to stock + -ade.


tsotsi

sn-noun

tsótsi class 5 (plural matsótsi class 6)

tsótsi (canonical class-5)
matsótsi (class-6 plural)

criminal, thug, gangster, hooligan, hoodlum


strangler

/ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)lə/

An epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows.


walk the beat

en-verb

walk the beat (third-person singular simple present walks the beat, present participle walking the beat, simple past and past participle walked the beat)

walks the beat (present singular third-person)
walking the beat (participle present)
walked the beat (participle past)
walked the beat (past)

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(idiomatic, slang) To patrol on the job, especially as a police officer or guard.


carjack

carjack (third-person singular simple present carjacks, present participle carjacking, simple past and past participle carjacked)

carjacks (present singular third-person)
carjacking (participle present)
carjacked (participle past)
carjacked (past)

/ˈkɑɹ.d͡ʒæk/

Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!

(transitive) To steal an automobile forcibly from (someone).


backstory

From back- (prefix meaning ‘in, into, or towards the past’) + story.

prefix

(chiefly espionage, law enforcement) A fictitious account of a person's history designed to conceal their actual history and motives.


voyeurism

en-noun

voyeurism (usually uncountable, plural voyeurisms)

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The derivation of sexual satisfaction by watching unsuspecting people secretly, especially when those being watched are undressed or undressing, flashing, toileting, or engaging in sexual activity.

voyeurisme

derivation of sexual satisfaction by watching people secretly

(by extension) The derivation of satisfaction by obsessively watching or following sensational or sordid subjects.


DS

DS (countable and uncountable, plural DSs or DSes)

detective sergeant
detective sergeant#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of detective sergeant; a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.


囚徒

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (囚徒):
* → Japanese: 囚(しゅう)徒(と) (shūto)
* → Korean: 수도(囚徒) (sudo)

/t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵ tʰu³⁵/

/t͡sʰɐu̯²¹ tʰou̯²¹/

/siu¹³⁻²² tɔ¹³/

/siu²⁴⁻²² tɔ²⁴/

/t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵ tʰu³⁵/

/t͡sʰɐu̯²¹ tʰou̯²¹/

/siu¹³⁻²² tɔ¹³/

/siu²⁴⁻²² tɔ²⁴/


embezzler

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1667, Samuel Pepys, Diary
It appears that Hogg is the eeriest rogue, the most observable embezzler, that ever was known.

At the time, I was deeply involved with the handsome embezzler who led a major telecom company into bankruptcy.

That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.

2015 December 3, Tracy Alloway, “There's Been a Bezzle-Fueled Boom in Bonds”, in Markets, Bloomberg News, retrieved 2021-08-16:

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:

One who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles.

bedrieër

one who steals money they have been trusted with


embezzle

en-verb

embezzle (third-person singular simple present embezzles, present participle embezzling, simple past and past participle embezzled)

embezzles (present singular third-person)
embezzling (participle present)
embezzled (participle past)
embezzled (past)

From Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman embesiler, embesillier, embeseillier (“to steal, cause to disappear”), from em- + Old French besillier (“to torment, destroy, gouge”), of unknown origin.

der

You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.

1903, H. G. Wells, “Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation”, in Twelve Stories and a Dream:

You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?

1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

(law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

غَلَّ

to steal money that one has been trusted with

присва́ивать

обманным путём чужие деньги


mickey

* (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
* (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

I slipped him a mickey.

(US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.


buster

Originally a dialectal variant of burster; later influenced by bust + -er.
The combining form of the term has appeared from the early 20th century but been especially prolific during three periods: in the 1930s, owing to the success of the radio series Gang Busters; in the 1940s, owing to its appearance as military slang; and in the 1980s, owing to the success of the movie Ghostbusters.

rebenta-

person or thing that breaks or overwhelms

Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.

1920, F. A. McKenzie, ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson, v. 83

The professional fraud-busters [of the art world].

New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters.

(chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.

(chiefly law enforcement slang) Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.


ole

(Ekiti) the tree Canarium schweinfurthii


killing spree

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A number of murders in a short span of time; a rampage.


mafia

See Mafia. The sense "entity which attempts to control a specified arena" makes an analogy to crime-syndicate mafias' attempts to control certain kinds of business in the regions in which they exist.


mafia

mafiaen (definite singular)
mafiaer (indefinite plural)
mafiaene (definite plural)


mafia

mafiaen (definite singular)
mafiaer (indefinite plural)
mafiaar (indefinite plural)
mafiaene (definite plural)
mafiaane (definite plural)


mafia

mafia (nominative singular)
mafie (nominative plural)
mafii (genitive singular)
mafii (genitive plural)
mafij (archaic genitive plural)
mafii (dative singular)
mafiom (dative plural)
mafię (accusative singular)
mafie (accusative plural)
mafią (instrumental singular)
mafiami (instrumental plural)
mafii (locative singular)
mafiach (locative plural)
mafio (singular vocative)
mafie (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Italian mafia, from Sicilian.


calabozo

Borrowed from Spanish calabozo. Doublet of calaboose.


silent alarm

A burglar alarm that makes no noise that is audible to the trespasser.


paddy wagon

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Supposedly from Paddy, a derogatory name for an Irishman.

(slang) A police van for transporting prisoners.


police car

An automobile used by a police officer when on duty.


empoisonnement

fr-noun

empoisonnement m (plural empoisonnements)

empoisonnement au monoxyde de carbone


modus

Ellipsis of English modus operandi, from New Latin.


concussion

en-noun

concussion (countable and uncountable, plural concussions)

Then Concussion, Rapine, Pillories, / Their Catalogue of Accusations fill.

1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

(obsolete, law) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.


Frevel

de-noun

Frevel m (strong, genitive Frevels, plural Frevel)

Frevels (genitive)
Frevel (plural)
Frevel (nominative singular)
Frevel (definite nominative plural)
Frevels (genitive singular)
Frevel (definite genitive plural)
Frevel (dative singular)
Freveln (dative definite plural)
Frevel (accusative singular)
Frevel (accusative definite plural)

Friedrich Kluge
John Francis Davis
de:Frevel

From Middle High German vrevel, Old High German fravili, Proto-West Germanic *frafal(i).


snuff

en-noun

snuff (countable and uncountable, plural snuffs)

From Middle English snoffe, snuffe, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle Dutch snuf, snof (“snuff”), Dutch sneuvelen (“to die in battle”).

The cops are chasing their own asses on the St Christopher case, so how about a “Are You St Christopher's Next Slaying?” piece? Profiles of all the snuffs to date and reconstructions of the victims' last minutes.

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


war criminal

A person guilty of one or more war crimes.


number one

(US, law enforcement) Black, African-American.


coast guard

From coast + guard. Compare Old English sǣweard (“coastguard”, literally “sea-guard”).

noncog

I went down to the coast guard to see what they're guarding / "See what the sign says, you idiot, we're guarding the coast"

2018, Bill Wurtz (lyrics and music), “Long Long Long Journey”:

The organisation or officer enforcing maritime law and policing the seas within territorial waters.


cellmate

A person with whom one shares a prison cell.


cutthroat

en-noun

cutthroat (countable and uncountable, plural cutthroats)

Children go through a phase of compound acquisition in which they invent cutthroats spontaneously before dropping the habit again.

2015 May 22, Stan Carey, “The Kick-butt World of Cutthroat Compounds”, in Slate Lexicon Valley:

cutthroat compound
cutthroat compound#English

(linguistics) Short for cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”).


警察官

ja-noun

警(けい)察(さつ)官(かん) • (keisatsukan) ^(←けいさつくわん (keisatukwan)?)

警察官 (canonical)
keisatsukan (romanization)
keisatukwan (romanization)
けいさつくわん (hiragana historical)

[ke̞ːsa̠t͡sɨ̥kã̠ɴ]

From 警察(けいさつ) (keisatsu, “police”) + 官(かん) (-kan, “government official”).

ja-com

男性警察官

女性警察官


death row

en-noun

death row (countable and uncountable, plural death rows)

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Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.

2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:

The section of a prison which houses those inmates who are sentenced to death.


criminal negligence

criminal negligence (usually uncountable, plural criminal negligences)

(law) Failure to use reasonable care, and thus put someone at risk of injury or death.


殺す

ja-verb

殺(ころ)す • (korosu) godan (stem 殺(ころ)し (koroshi), past 殺(ころ)した (koroshita))

殺す (canonical)
korosu (romanization)
殺し (stem)
殺した (past)
殺さ
ころさ
korosa
殺し
ころし
koroshi
殺す
ころす
korosu
殺せ
ころせ
korose
殺される (passive)
ころされる (passive)
korosareru (passive)
殺させる (causative)
殺さす (causative)
ころさせる (causative)
ころさす (causative)
korosaseru (causative)
korosasu (causative)
殺せる (potential)
ころせる (potential)
koroseru (potential)
殺そう (volitional)
ころそう (volitional)
korosō (volitional)
殺さない (negative)
ころさない (negative)
korosanai (negative)
殺さず (continuative negative)
ころさず (continuative negative)
korosazu (continuative negative)
殺します (formal)
ころします (formal)
koroshimasu (formal)
殺した (perfective)
ころした (perfective)
koroshita (perfective)
殺して (conjunctive)
ころして (conjunctive)
koroshite (conjunctive)
殺せば (conditional hypothetical)
ころせば (conditional hypothetical)
koroseba (conditional hypothetical)

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE. From Proto-Japonic *kərəsu.

1984 November 15, Motoka Murakami, “鹿(カ)児(ゴ)島(シマ)の猛(も)者(さ)たちの巻(まき) [The He-Men of Kagoshima]”, in 六(ム)三(サ)四(シ)の剣(けん) [Musashi’s Sword], volume 17 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 18:

Awrite den, Natsuki!! Ah’ll be yer first opponent!!

ほんなら夏木ー‼まず一番にオイと勝負じゃっ‼

Hon nara Natsukī‼ Mazu ibban ni oi to shōbu ja'‼

In that case, Natsuki!! Settle with me first and foremost!!

ほんなら夏木ー‼まず一番にオイと勝負じゃっ‼


larcenous

en-adj

larcenous (comparative more larcenous, superlative most larcenous)

more larcenous (comparative)
most larcenous (superlative)


breakout

(aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.


영어

Sino-Korean word from 英語, from 英 (“England”) + 語 (“language”).

ko-etym-sino

영어를 못합니다.

네 이름 영어로 어떻게 써?

How do you romanize your name? (literally, “How do you write your name in English?”)


decriminalize

en-verb

decriminalize (third-person singular simple present decriminalizes, present participle decriminalizing, simple past and past participle decriminalized)

decriminalizes (present singular third-person)
decriminalizing (participle present)
decriminalized (participle past)
decriminalized (past)

Back-formation from decriminalization, equivalent to de- + criminalize.

The march to decriminalize drugs moved further across the nation on Tuesday despite continued federal prohibition.

2020 April 11, Thomas Fuller, “Oregon Decriminalizes Small Amounts of Heroin and Cocaine; Four States Legalize Marijuana”, in The New York Times:

The House of Representatives approved decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level on Friday in the first time Congress has acted on the issue.

2020 April 12, Deirdre Walsh, “House Approves Decriminalizing Marijuana; Bill To Stall In Senate”, in NPR:

Last fall Oregon voters decriminalized possession of small amounts of almost all hard drugs, taking a groundbreaking step away from the arrest, charge and jail model for possession that's been a centerpiece of American drug policy since President Richard Nixon declared his War on Drugs 50 years ago this week.

2021 June 18, Eric Westervelt, “Oregon's Pioneering Drug Decriminalization Experiment Is Now Facing The Hard Test”, in NPR:

The court’s decision decriminalizes abortions in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, and means that any woman should be able to seek the procedure from a health professional without fear of criminal prosecution.

2022 February 22, Julie Turkewitz, “Colombia Decriminalizes Abortion, Bolstering Trend Across Region”, in The New York Times:

(transitive) To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.

despenalitzar

to change the laws so something is no longer a crime


criminalize

criminalize (third-person singular simple present criminalizes, present participle criminalizing, simple past and past participle criminalized)

criminalizes (present singular third-person)
criminalizing (participle present)
criminalized (participle past)
criminalized (past)

The Nixon campaign in 1968[…] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

2016 April 1, Dan Baum, quoting John Ehrlichman, “Legalize It All”, in Harper's Magazine:

(transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.

tehdä (jostakin) rikos (object in elative and usually before rikos)


thievery

en-noun

thievery (countable and uncountable, plural thieveries)

From thieve + -ery. Compare Old Frisian deverie ("thievery; theft"; > West Frisian dieverij; Saterland Frisian Däiweräi), Dutch dieverij (“thievery”), German Low German Deveree (“thievery; theft”), German Dieberei (“thievery”), Danish tyveri (“thievery; theft; larceny”), Swedish tjuveri (“thievery”).

gloss

This instance of thievery will not be overlooked.

One thief may well have the power to achieve a certain amount of success in fulfilling his desires to possess the property of another. But thievery being what it is, it feeds that desire in an intemperate way, and so the desire grows and grows.

2008, John O’Callaghan, “Neither Robber Barons nor Philosopher Kings: Political Prudence in the Just Polity”, in Margaret Monahan Hogan, Lauretta Conklin Frederking, editors, The American Experiment: Religious Freedom, [Portland, Ore.]: University of Portland, Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture, →ISBN, section 4 (Theoretical Analyses), page 343:


lifer

They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer. They'll make the Artful nothing less than a lifer.

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.

I saw six species of honeyeaters new to me and went home with 16 lifers and some bad sandfly bites.

2013, Sue Taylor, Best 100 Birdwatching Sites in Australia:

(birdwatching) A bird species seen for the first time by a birder who is keeping a list of all the species he or she has ever seen.


conjugal visit

A scheduled visit during which an inmate of a penal institution is permitted to have sexual intercourse with a visitor (usually his or her spouse) in a closely controlled setting.


mendicancy squad

en-noun

mendicancy squad (plural mendicancy squads)

It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look-out for the mendicancy squad. - The Gift of the Magi - "O. Henry" - 1906

(US) police who arrested beggars and homeless people


process server

The process server could not effect service of process because the defendant was nowhere to be found.

The bailiff does not like to see himself as the brutal oppressor of the poor or as the agent of malicious creditors... This distinction between warrant officer and process server is not at all dissimilar to the gulf that divides the law officer and the peace officer in the police force... Warrant officers execute warrants whilst process servers distribute court summonses and cajole debtors.

1973, Paul Rock, Making People Pay, page 162:

(law enforcement) A deliverer of processes or summonses, the formal announcements of the beginning of a legal action; a huissier de justice or other equivalent position in other legal systems.


гопник

ru-noun+

го́пнический

го́пник • (gópnik) m anim (genitive го́пника, nominative plural го́пники, genitive plural го́пников, feminine го́пница, relational adjective го́пнический)

го́пник (canonical)
gópnik (romanization)
го́пника (genitive)
го́пники (nominative plural)
го́пников (genitive plural)
го́пница (feminine)
го́пнический (adjective relational)
го́пник (nominative singular)
го́пники (nominative plural)
го́пника (genitive singular)
го́пников (genitive plural)
го́пнику (dative singular)
го́пникам (dative plural)
го́пника (accusative singular)
го́пников (accusative plural)
го́пником (instrumental singular)
го́пниками (instrumental plural)
го́пнике (prepositional singular)
го́пниках (plural prepositional)

го́пать (gópatʹ) + -ник (-nik) or гоп (gop) + -ник (-nik).
Folk etymology connects the term to the acronym for Городско́е о́бщество призо́ра (Gorodskóje óbščestvo prizóra), the name of a former Saint Petersburg orphanage and workhouse for street children.

gopnik (a member of the Russian urban criminal subculture; a young hoodlum; a member of a street gang)


CSP

en-noun

CSP (countable and uncountable, plural CSPs)

chief superintendent
chief superintendent#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of chief superintendent (a police rank).


vanki

vanki (nominative singular)
vangit (nominative plural)
vanki (accusative nominative singular)
vangit (accusative nominative plural)
vangin (accusative genitive singular)
vangit (accusative genitive plural)
vangin (genitive singular)
vankien (genitive plural)
vankia (partitive singular)
vankeja (partitive plural)
vangissa (inessive singular)
vangeissa (inessive plural)
vangista (elative singular)
vangeista (elative plural)
vankiin (illative singular)
vankeihin (illative plural)
vangilla (adessive singular)
vangeilla (adessive plural)
vangilta (ablative singular)
vangeilta (ablative plural)
vangille (allative singular)
vangeille (allative plural)
vankina (essive singular)
vankeina (essive plural)
vangiksi (singular translative)
vangeiksi (plural translative)
vangitta (abessive singular)
vangeitta (abessive plural)
vangein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
vankini (nominative singular)
vankini (nominative plural)
vankini (accusative nominative singular)
vankini (accusative nominative plural)
vankini (accusative genitive singular)
vankini (accusative genitive plural)
vankini (genitive singular)
vankieni (genitive plural)
vankiani (partitive singular)
vankejani (partitive plural)
vangissani (inessive singular)
vangeissani (inessive plural)
vangistani (elative singular)
vangeistani (elative plural)
vankiini (illative singular)
vankeihini (illative plural)
vangillani (adessive singular)
vangeillani (adessive plural)
vangiltani (ablative singular)
vangeiltani (ablative plural)
vangilleni (allative singular)
vangeilleni (allative plural)
vankinani (essive singular)
vankeinani (essive plural)
vangikseni (singular translative)
vangeikseni (plural translative)
vangittani (abessive singular)
vangeittani (abessive plural)
vankeineni (comitative plural)
vankisi (nominative singular)
vankisi (nominative plural)
vankisi (accusative nominative singular)
vankisi (accusative nominative plural)
vankisi (accusative genitive singular)
vankisi (accusative genitive plural)
vankisi (genitive singular)
vankiesi (genitive plural)
vankiasi (partitive singular)
vankejasi (partitive plural)
vangissasi (inessive singular)
vangeissasi (inessive plural)
vangistasi (elative singular)
vangeistasi (elative plural)
vankiisi (illative singular)
vankeihisi (illative plural)
vangillasi (adessive singular)
vangeillasi (adessive plural)
vangiltasi (ablative singular)
vangeiltasi (ablative plural)
vangillesi (allative singular)
vangeillesi (allative plural)
vankinasi (essive singular)
vankeinasi (essive plural)
vangiksesi (singular translative)
vangeiksesi (plural translative)
vangittasi (abessive singular)
vangeittasi (abessive plural)
vankeinesi (comitative plural)
vankimme (nominative singular)
vankimme (nominative plural)
vankimme (accusative nominative singular)
vankimme (accusative nominative plural)
vankimme (accusative genitive singular)
vankimme (accusative genitive plural)
vankimme (genitive singular)
vankiemme (genitive plural)
vankiamme (partitive singular)
vankejamme (partitive plural)
vangissamme (inessive singular)
vangeissamme (inessive plural)
vangistamme (elative singular)
vangeistamme (elative plural)
vankiimme (illative singular)
vankeihimme (illative plural)
vangillamme (adessive singular)
vangeillamme (adessive plural)
vangiltamme (ablative singular)
vangeiltamme (ablative plural)
vangillemme (allative singular)
vangeillemme (allative plural)
vankinamme (essive singular)
vankeinamme (essive plural)
vangiksemme (singular translative)
vangeiksemme (plural translative)
vangittamme (abessive singular)
vangeittamme (abessive plural)
vankeinemme (comitative plural)
vankinne (nominative singular)
vankinne (nominative plural)
vankinne (accusative nominative singular)
vankinne (accusative nominative plural)
vankinne (accusative genitive singular)
vankinne (accusative genitive plural)
vankinne (genitive singular)
vankienne (genitive plural)
vankianne (partitive singular)
vankejanne (partitive plural)
vangissanne (inessive singular)
vangeissanne (inessive plural)
vangistanne (elative singular)
vangeistanne (elative plural)
vankiinne (illative singular)
vankeihinne (illative plural)
vangillanne (adessive singular)
vangeillanne (adessive plural)
vangiltanne (ablative singular)
vangeiltanne (ablative plural)
vangillenne (allative singular)
vangeillenne (allative plural)
vankinanne (essive singular)
vankeinanne (essive plural)
vangiksenne (singular translative)
vangeiksenne (plural translative)
vangittanne (abessive singular)
vangeittanne (abessive plural)
vankeinenne (comitative plural)
vankinsa (nominative singular)
vankinsa (nominative plural)
vankinsa (accusative nominative singular)
vankinsa (accusative nominative plural)
vankinsa (accusative genitive singular)
vankinsa (accusative genitive plural)
vankinsa (genitive singular)
vankiensa (genitive plural)
vankiaan (partitive singular)
vankiansa (partitive singular)
vankejaan (partitive plural)
vankejansa (partitive plural)
vangissaan (inessive singular)
vangissansa (inessive singular)
vangeissaan (inessive plural)
vangeissansa (inessive plural)
vangistaan (elative singular)
vangistansa (elative singular)
vangeistaan (elative plural)
vangeistansa (elative plural)
vankiinsa (illative singular)
vankeihinsa (illative plural)
vangillaan (adessive singular)
vangillansa (adessive singular)
vangeillaan (adessive plural)
vangeillansa (adessive plural)
vangiltaan (ablative singular)
vangiltansa (ablative singular)
vangeiltaan (ablative plural)
vangeiltansa (ablative plural)
vangilleen (allative singular)
vangillensa (allative singular)
vangeilleen (allative plural)
vangeillensa (allative plural)
vankinaan (essive singular)
vankinansa (essive singular)
vankeinaan (essive plural)
vankeinansa (essive plural)
vangikseen (singular translative)
vangiksensa (singular translative)
vangeikseen (plural translative)
vangeiksensa (plural translative)
vangittaan (abessive singular)
vangittansa (abessive singular)
vangeittaan (abessive plural)
vangeittansa (abessive plural)
vankeineen (comitative plural)
vankeinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Old Swedish fange (compare Swedish fånge), itself from Middle Low German vangen (“captive”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fangōną.


mord

mord (nominative singular)
mordy (nominative plural)
mordu (genitive singular)
mordů (genitive plural)
mordu (dative singular)
mordům (dative plural)
mord (accusative singular)
mordy (accusative plural)
morde (singular vocative)
mordy (plural vocative)
mordu (locative singular)
mordech (locative plural)
mordem (instrumental singular)
mordy (instrumental plural)


mord

mordet (definite singular)
mord (indefinite plural)
morda (definite plural)
mordene (definite plural)


mord

mord (nominative singular)
mordy (nominative plural)
mordu (genitive singular)
mordów (genitive plural)
mordowi (dative singular)
mordom (dative plural)
mord (accusative singular)
mordy (accusative plural)
mordem (instrumental singular)
mordami (instrumental plural)
mordzie (locative singular)
mordach (locative plural)
mordzie (singular vocative)
mordy (plural vocative)

(crime) murder (act of deliberate killing)


mord

mord (indefinite nominative singular)
mords (genitive indefinite singular)
mordet (definite nominative singular)
mordets (definite genitive singular)
mord (indefinite nominative plural)
mords (genitive indefinite plural)
morden (definite nominative plural)
mordens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse morð, from Proto-Germanic *murþą, from Proto-Indo-European *mṛtóm.


narco

The conflict has become a test of endurance for both the government and the narcos.

2010 October 16, “Under the volcano”, in The Economist:

(crime) A Latin American drug baron, usually from Colombia or Mexico.

(law enforcement) Acronym of narcotics control officer (“a police officer specializing in drug crimes”).


jailbreak

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DAN has become a canonical example of what's known as a "jailbreak" — a creative way to bypass the safeguards OpenAI built in to keep ChatGPT from spouting bigotry, propaganda or, say, the instructions to run a successful online phishing scam. From charming to disturbing, these jailbreaks reveal the chatbot is programmed to be more of a people-pleaser than a rule-follower.

2023 February 14, Will Oremus, “Meet ChatGPT's evil twin, DAN”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-19:

The jailbreak of ChatGPT has been in operation since December, but users have had to find new ways around fixes OpenAI implemented to stop the workarounds.

2023 March 8, Josh Taylor, “ChatGPT's alter ego, Dan: users jailbreak AI program to get around ethical safeguards”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:

It's for this reason that Alex Albert, a computer science student at the University of Washington, created Jailbreak Chat, a site that hosts a collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks.

2023 March 22, Chloe Xiang, “The Amateurs Jailbreaking GPT Say They're Preventing a Closed-Source AI Dystopia”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

large language model
large language model

(artificial intelligence) A prompt to a large language model which frees it from its ethical restrictions.


jailbreak

en-verb

jailbreak (third-person singular simple present jailbreaks, present participle jailbreaking, simple past jailbroke, past participle jailbroken)

jailbreaks (present singular third-person)
jailbreaking (participle present)
jailbroke (past)
jailbroken (participle past)

Unofficially, it has been possible to “Jailbreak” iOS and gain access to the underlying Unix and kernel environment, but this voids the warranty.

2012, Ole Henry Halvorsen, Douglas Clarke, OS X and iOS Kernel Programming, Apress, →ISBN, page 21:

In order to gain true root access to a mobile device, a user has to either jailbreak (iOS) or root (Android/Windows) the device.

2016, Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Ninth Edition (Exams 220-901 & 220-902), McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 1172:

(transitive, computing) To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.

ChatGPT is far from perfect. Twitter has been flooded with examples of "jailbreaking" ChatGPT — that is, tricking it into hallucinations or misalignment.

2022 December 16, Farhad Manjoo, “ChatGPT Has a Devastating Sense of Humor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-16:

These are young technologies. Rather than jailbreaking AI tools to simulate conversations between the rapper Ye and Adolf Hitler, or waiting uneasily for them to become sentient, why don't we approach them as good parents would — and talk to them, or read to them, the way we do to children?

2022 December 27, Alyssa Rosenberg, “Something AI can't do: Tell a great bedtime story”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-27:

The desire to jailbreak ChatGPT so that it violates safety filters follows a pattern of use by people that are dissatisfied by the moderation of the chatbot.

2023 February 8, Chloe Xiang, “People are 'Jailbreaking' ChatGPT to Make It Endorse Racism, Conspiracies”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-03-22:

(artificial intelligence) To free a large language model from its ethical restrictions using prompt injection.


警察

→ Zhuang: gingjcaz

/t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵/

/t͡ɕin⁵³ t͡sʰa²¹/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵³ t͡sʰa²¹/

/t͡ɕĩ¹¹ ʈ͡ʂʰaʔ⁵/

/t͡ɕiŋ²⁴ t͡sʰa²⁴/

/kɪŋ³⁵ t͡sʰaːt̚³/

/ˈt͡ɕin²¹³⁻¹³ t͡sʰat̚⁵/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵³ t͡sʰa¹¹/

/keiŋ²¹ t͡sʰuɛ²⁴/

/kiŋ³³⁻⁵⁵ ^((t͡sʰ-))ʒɑʔ²⁴/

/kiɪŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/kiɪŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/kiɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sʰat̚⁵/

/kiɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/kiɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/kiɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/keŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sʰak̚²/

/kiɐŋ³³ t͡sʰat̚³³/

/t͡ɕin³³ t͡sʰaʔ⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕin⁴¹ t͡sʰa̠²⁴/

/t͡ɕin⁴² t͡sʰa̠¹³⁻³³/

/t͡ɕin³³ t͡sʰä²²/

/t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵/

/t͡ɕin⁵³ t͡sʰa²¹/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵³ t͡sʰa²¹/

/t͡ɕĩ¹¹ ʈ͡ʂʰaʔ⁵/

/t͡ɕiŋ²⁴ t͡sʰa²⁴/

/kɪŋ³⁵ t͡sʰaːt̚³/

/ˈt͡ɕin²¹³⁻¹³ t͡sʰat̚⁵/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵³ t͡sʰa¹¹/

/keiŋ²¹ t͡sʰuɛ²⁴/

/kiŋ³³⁻⁵⁵ ^((t͡sʰ-))ʒɑʔ²⁴/

/kiɪŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/kiɪŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/kiɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sʰat̚⁵/

/kiɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/kiɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/kiɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰat̚³²/

/keŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sʰak̚²/

/kiɐŋ³³ t͡sʰat̚³³/

/t͡ɕin³³ t͡sʰaʔ⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕin⁴¹ t͡sʰa̠²⁴/

/t͡ɕin⁴² t͡sʰa̠¹³⁻³³/

/t͡ɕin³³ t͡sʰä²²/

便衣警察

(countable) police officer (Classifier: 名; 位)


警察

→ Okinawan: 警(きー)察(さち) (kīsachi); 警(ちー)察(さち) (chīsachi)

→ Yami: kisat

Short for 警察署 (keisatsusho, “police station”).


警察

ryu-head

警(きー)察(さち) or 警(ちー)察(さち) (kīsachi or chīsachi)

警察 (canonical)
kīsachi (romanization)
chīsachi (romanization)
さちさち (hiragana)

First used around the beginning of the Meiji period, borrowed from Japanese 警察 (keisatsu).


警察

chữ Hán form of cảnh sát (“(Overseas Vietnamese or chiefly law) the police”).


arsonist

One who has committed the act of arson, or illegally setting fire to property.


masculino

pt-noun

masculino m (plural masculinos, feminine feminino, feminine plural femininos)

masculinos (plural)
feminino (feminine)
femininos (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin masculīnus.

(South Brazil, law enforcement) male individual


steal

From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-West Germanic *stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelaną.
Compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla, Norwegian Bokmål stjele, Norwegian Nynorsk stela, Sanskrit स्तेय (steya); see below for more.
For the meaning development compare with Russian красть (krastʹ, “to steal”) and Russian кра́сться (krástʹsja, “to stalk, to prowl, to slink”).
etymology notes
Proposed etymologies beyond Germanic are numerous and include
* Proto-Indo-European *ster-: compare Welsh herw (“theft, raid”), Ancient Greek στερέω (steréō, “to deprive of”)
* Proto-Indo-European *stel(H)- (“to stretch”): compare Albanian pë/mbështjell (“I confuse, mess up, mix, wrap up”), Old Church Slavonic стєлѭ (steljǫ, “I spread out (bed, roof)”), Ancient Greek τηλία (tēlía, “playing table”)
* Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”): compare Sanskrit त्सरति (tsárati, “creep, sneak up on”) and other forms under Pokorny 5. *sel- "schleichen, kriechen"


bloodshed

en-noun

bloodshed (usually uncountable, plural bloodsheds)

From attested early forms of such phrases as "there was much blood shed"; equivalent to blood + shed, past participle of shed.

A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.


venality

venality (countable and uncountable, plural venalities)

From venal + -ity, from French vénalité or Latin vēnālitās, from vēnālis (“venal”), from vēnum.

1785, The Times, 17 Jan 1785, p.1 col. B
As your spirited paper has declared war, not only against venality and despotism, but was intended to correct follies and abuses in private life, I hope the following will come within its useful plan.

The fact or state of being for sale, especially with reference to bribes or corruption.


swatting

Swatting started in the combative world of online gaming. It was a way to terrorize someone more famous, get even with a rival or retaliate against someone with different political views.

2020 January 23, Sheera Frenkel, “People Are Calling SWAT Teams to Tech Executives’ Homes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Mr. Herring’s relatives said they wanted tougher laws against swatting and more training for police agencies on how to recognize potential fake calls.

2021 July 24, Maria Cramer, “A Grandfather Died in ‘Swatting’ Over His Twitter Handle, Officials Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US, slang) The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.


solitary confinement

solitary confinement (usually uncountable, plural solitary confinements)

Forced isolation in a small space and the denial of contact with other persons, usually as a form of punishment for a prison inmate.


profiteer

/ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/

(derogatory) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.

إسْتِغْلَالِيّ

one who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by their corresponding assumption of risk


拘束

拘束する (canonical)
kōsoku suru (romanization)
拘束し (stem)
拘束した (past)
拘束し
こうそくし
kōsoku shi
拘束する
こうそくする
kōsoku suru
拘束すれ
こうそくすれ
kōsoku sure
拘束せよ (imperative literary)
拘束しろ (colloquial imperative)
こうそくせよ (imperative literary)
こうそくしろ (colloquial imperative)
kōsoku seyo (imperative literary)
kōsoku shiro (colloquial imperative)
拘束される (passive)
こうそくされる (passive)
kōsoku sareru (passive)
拘束させる (causative)
拘束さす (causative)
こうそくさせる (causative)
こうそくさす (causative)
kōsoku saseru (causative)
kōsoku sasu (causative)
拘束できる (potential)
こうそくできる (potential)
kōsoku dekiru (potential)
拘束しよう (volitional)
こうそくしよう (volitional)
kōsoku shiyō (volitional)
拘束しない (negative)
こうそくしない (negative)
kōsoku shinai (negative)
拘束せず (continuative negative)
こうそくせず (continuative negative)
kōsoku sezu (continuative negative)
拘束します (formal)
こうそくします (formal)
kōsoku shimasu (formal)
拘束した (perfective)
こうそくした (perfective)
kōsoku shita (perfective)
拘束して (conjunctive)
こうそくして (conjunctive)
kōsoku shite (conjunctive)
拘束すれば (conditional hypothetical)
こうそくすれば (conditional hypothetical)
kōsoku sureba (conditional hypothetical)

警察は容疑者を拘束した。

事情の変化を見た今日では、我々は従来の方針には拘束されない。

Jijō no henka o mita konnichi de wa, wareware wa jūrai no hōshin ni wa kōsoku sarenai.

Under today's altered situation we are not bound by our past policies.

正しい法律は決して善人の自由を拘束しない。

Tadashii hōritsu wa kesshite zennin no jiyū o kōsoku shinai.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good.

restrict; restrain; (law enforcement) detain


軟禁

/ʐu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕin⁵¹/

/nŋ̍⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kim²¹/

/nŋ̍⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kim²¹/

/nŋ̍⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kim⁴¹/

/nŋ̍⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kim¹¹/

/nuĩ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kim²¹/

/ʐu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕin⁵¹/

/nŋ̍⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kim²¹/

/nŋ̍⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kim²¹/

/nŋ̍⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kim⁴¹/

/nŋ̍⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kim¹¹/

/nuĩ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kim²¹/


div

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of divisi (“division”).


wrecker

(Soviet Union, crime, historical) Someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking; that is, of undermining the state in intangible ways.

Soviet Union; crime; Soviet Union; crime


henchman

From Middle English henxman (“page, attendant”), from Old English *hengstmann, *hengestmann (“groom”, literally “horseman”), from hengst, hengest (“stallion, horse, steed, gelding”) (from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz (“stallion”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”)) + mann (“man”). Cognate with archaic German Hengstmann (“a groom”), Icelandic hestamaður (“horseman, groom”).

cog

A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate.

ذَنَب

a loyal and trusted follower or subordinate

The glib sophistries of the special pleader and the verdant gullibility of the public; the ridiculous, now happily fast disappearing partisan bias of the voter and the venal instincts of the political henchman; the lack of proper moral stamina in much of our public press, and the tardiness of practical public appreciation where journals are true to the people's interests the fear of the vengeance;

1906, W. G. Joerns, “The Railroad Hold-up”, in Watson's Magazine, volume 5, page 397:

It is madness to commence war against the audacious despots under any leader like Lafayette, the traitor and venal henchman of despotism, against whom the cries of the patriots murdered on July 17 call to Heaven.

1916, The History of Nations - Volume 10, page 165:

the great task confronting humankind today in effecting government that is worth its powder and shot is not regularity of attendance at the polls so much as in the intelligent analysis of the true leader from the henchman seeking selfish profit from the filling of an office.

1935, William Dudley Pelley, Nations-in-law: an Unconventional Analysis Cleaning the Barnacles from the Ship of State:

In appreciation for his service of railroading Frank, the power-brokering Watson sent his venal henchman Dorsey to the U.S. Congress for two terms .

1998, Jay Robert Nash, Terrorism in the 20th Century, page 78:

The practice of doubling in this production further emphasizes the ascendancy of corporeal decay and violence in the tetralogy, for, in addition to Cade, Oliver Cotton also appears as the seductive cuckold-maker Suffolk and, in the final of the three installments of The Plantagenets, as Richard of Gloucester's venal and Machiavellian henchman, the Duke of Buckingham .

2005, Christian Riegel, Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning, page 53:

A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests.

aanhanger

a person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests

Most of the carpet joints were run by the mobsters and local henchmen associated with the Mayfield Road Gang, but Peter Schmidt's Playtorium and Glenn Rendezvous were also included.

2014, Paul A. Tenkotte, James C. Claypool, The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, page 385:

(obsolete) A page to a prince or other person of high rank.


lockup

He's in lockup for 30 days for drunk and disorderly.

(slang) A jail cell; a period of incarceration in such a cell; a facility containing such cells.


chickenhawk

/ˈt͡ʃɪkɪnˌhɔk/

From chicken + hawk. The political sense is derived from figurative meanings of "chicken" (coward) and "hawk" (militarist).

(US politics, derogatory) A draft dodger, especially in the Vietnam War, who nonetheless currently supports United States overseas military engagements.

knapenschenner

adult man who seeks out boys as his sexual partners


abi

Possibly the second verb in a verb-pair with albi. Cognate with Alabama ibi and Choctaw abi.


RAP

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


blue heeler

Shorty the Sixth, as he was sometimes called, had been a very winning puppy, and they had kept him at home until he began to exhibit the same tendencies that Duane's blue heelers always exhibited, that is, a tendency to herd children in the same way they would have herded cattle or sheep: they nipped their heels.

2003, Larry McMurtry, Duane's Depressed, page 75:

He always has his blue heeler dog in his office tucked away under his feet or near the door.

2007, Graham Greenwood, A Truckie's Dream: The Allan Scott Story : His Official Biography, page 113:

For some time, Dan and Pat had been at me to get a dog so we took a trip to the Yagoona RSPCA and came back with a blue heeler pup.

2008, Elizabeth Bruce, A Show Off, Just Like Your Father, page 92:

Australian Cattle Dog
Australian Cattle Dog

(Australia) A blue-coated variety of the Australian Cattle Dog breed.

“Take a gander son, but be quick about it,” he said lighting a cigarette. “The blue heelers come by here and start snoopin about.”

2008, Deborah N. David, The Janus Project, page 382:


glina

glina (canonical masculine person)
glina (canonical feminine)
glina (nominative singular)
gliny (nominative plural)
gliny (genitive singular)
glin (genitive plural)
glinie (dative singular)
glinom (dative plural)
glinę (accusative singular)
gliny (accusative plural)
gliną (instrumental singular)
glinami (instrumental plural)
glinie (locative singular)
glinach (locative plural)
glino (singular vocative)
gliny (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *glina, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gléiˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-.

(colloquial, law enforcement) cop (police officer)


date rape

However, from a more practical point of view it would be wise to adopt a distinction between "date rape" and "stranger rape" since jurors are likely to adopt such a distinction on their own.

1974, Noreen Connell, Cassandra Wilson, Rape: the first sourcebook for women, New American Library, page 155:

A rape committed by an acquaintance of the victim while out on a date.


bait and switch

Seereeram and other critics say it was a sort of bait and switch. Citibank met with Trintomar three times in the spring of 1992 to pitch its original $66 million refinancing proposal, and in a letter dated Sept. 9, Trintomar asked for a formal proposal. The next day, Citibank sent a letter outlining the extra $96.5 million loan in several pages of eye-glazing detail.

2002 October 7, Jyoti Thottam, “Predators in Paradise?”, in Time:

An unscrupulous and sometimes illegal sales technique, in which an inexpensive product is advertised to attract prospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product is unavailable or of poor quality and are instead urged to buy a more expensive product.


ищейка

ru-noun+

ище́йка • (iščéjka) f anim (genitive ище́йки, nominative plural ище́йки, genitive plural ище́ек)

ище́йка (canonical)
iščéjka (romanization)
ище́йки (genitive)
ище́йки (nominative plural)
ище́ек (genitive plural)
ище́йка (nominative singular)
ище́йки (nominative plural)
ище́йки (genitive singular)
ище́ек (genitive plural)
ище́йке (dative singular)
ище́йкам (dative plural)
ище́йку (accusative singular)
ище́ек (accusative plural)
ище́йкой (instrumental singular)
ище́йкою (instrumental singular)
ище́йками (instrumental plural)
ище́йке (prepositional singular)
ище́йках (plural prepositional)

(slang, derogatory) sleuth, detective, undercover cop


Scotland Yard

From the address, originally at Great Scotland Yard off Whitehall, then at New Scotland Yard on the Embankment, and (currently) at New Scotland Yard in Westminster.

I, for my part, drew up as full a précis of the case as I deemed advisable, and as time permitted, which I despatched by one of the company’s police to Scotland Yard.

The headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police Force.


ul

ul (nominative singular)
ule (nominative plural)
ula (genitive singular)
uli (genitive plural)
ulów (genitive plural)
ulowi (dative singular)
ulom (dative plural)
ul (accusative singular)
ule (accusative plural)
ulem (instrumental singular)
ulami (instrumental plural)
ulu (locative singular)
ulach (locative plural)
ulu (singular vocative)
ule (plural vocative)


cutpurse

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From Middle English cutte-purs; equivalent to cut + purse: originally, purses were worn by a strap at the girdle, which the thief would cut.

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

The Gipsie snap & Pedro
are none of Toms Comradoes,
yͤ punck I skorne, & yͤ cutpurse sworn
& yͤ roring boyes brauadoes

c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.


polisi

id-noun

polisi (plural polisi-polisi, first-person possessive polisiku, second-person possessive polisimu, third-person possessive polisinya)

polisi-polisi (plural)
polisiku (first-person possessive)
polisimu (possessive second-person)
polisinya (possessive third-person)

Comparison of Standard Malay and Indonesian

Borrowed from Dutch politie (“police”), from Middle Dutch policie, from Middle French policie, from Latin politia (“state, government”), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía). Cognate of Afrikaans polisie.


polisi

police (an organisation that enforces the law)


Dieb

de-noun

Dieb m (strong, genitive Diebes or Diebs, plural Diebe, diminutive Diebchen n or Diebelein n or Dieblein n, feminine Diebin)

Diebes (genitive)
Diebs (genitive)
Diebe (plural)
Diebchen (diminutive neuter)
Diebelein (diminutive neuter)
Dieblein (diminutive neuter)
Diebin (feminine)
Dieb (nominative singular)
Diebe (definite nominative plural)
Diebes (genitive singular)
Diebs (genitive singular)
Diebe (definite genitive plural)
Dieb (dative singular)
Diebe (dative singular)
Dieben (dative definite plural)
Dieb (accusative singular)
Diebe (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German diep, Old High German diob, from Proto-West Germanic *þeub, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz. Cognate with Old Norse þýfð, Old English þēof, Dutch dief, English thief, Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (þiufs).


pora

-pora (canonical)
kupora (infinitive)
kupora (infinitive)
kutopora (infinitive negative)
pora (imperative singular)
poreni (imperative plural)
hupora (habitual)
positive subject concord + -lipora (past)
negative subject concord + -kupora (negative past)
ninapora (first-person present singular)
napora (first-person present singular)
tunapora (first-person plural present)
unapora (present second-person singular)
mnapora (plural present second-person)
anapora (class-1 class-2 present singular third-person)
wanapora (class-1 class-2 plural present third-person)
positive subject concord + -napora (present third-person)
sipori (first-person negative present singular)
hatupori (first-person negative plural present)
hupori (negative present second-person singular)
hampori (negative plural present second-person)
hapori (class-1 class-2 negative present singular third-person)
hawapori (class-1 class-2 negative plural present third-person)
negative subject concord + -pori (negative present third-person)
positive subject concord + -tapora (future)
negative subject concord + -tapora (future negative)
nipore (first-person singular subjunctive)
tupore (first-person plural subjunctive)
upore (second-person singular subjunctive)
mpore (plural second-person subjunctive)
apore (class-1 class-2 singular subjunctive third-person)
wapore (class-1 class-2 plural subjunctive third-person)
positive subject concord + -pore (subjunctive third-person)
positive subject concord + -sipore (negative subjunctive)
positive subject concord + -ngepora (irrealis present)
positive subject concord + -singepora (irrealis negative present)
positive subject concord + -ngalipora (irrealis past)
positive subject concord + -singalipora (irrealis negative past)
napora (first-person gnomic singular)
twapora (first-person gnomic plural)
wapora (gnomic second-person singular)
mwapora (gnomic plural second-person)
apora (class-1 class-2 gnomic singular third-person)
wapora (class-1 class-2 gnomic plural third-person)
wapora (class-3 class-4 gnomic singular third-person)
yapora (class-3 class-4 gnomic plural third-person)
lapora (class-5 class-6 gnomic singular third-person)
yapora (class-5 class-6 gnomic plural third-person)
chapora (class-7 class-8 gnomic singular third-person)
vyapora (class-7 class-8 gnomic plural third-person)
yapora (class-10 class-9 gnomic singular third-person)
zapora (class-10 class-9 gnomic plural third-person)
wapora (class-11 gnomic singular third-person)
kwapora (class-15 class-17 gnomic singular third-person)
papora (class-16 gnomic singular third-person)
mwapora (class-18 gnomic singular third-person)
positive subject concord + -mepora (perfect)
positive subject concord + -meshapora (already-form)
negative subject concord + -japora (not-yet-form)
positive subject concord + -kipora (if-when-form)
positive subject concord + -sipopora (if-not-form)
positive subject concord + -kapore (consecutive subjunctive)
-nipora (first-person indicative object-concord singular)
-tupora (first-person indicative object-concord plural)
-kupora (indicative object-concord second-person singular)
-wapora (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-kuporeni (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-waporeni (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-mpora (class-1 class-2 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-wapora (class-1 class-2 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-upora (class-3 class-4 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-ipora (class-3 class-4 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-lipora (class-5 class-6 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-yapora (class-5 class-6 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-kipora (class-7 class-8 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-vipora (class-7 class-8 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-ipora (class-10 class-9 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-zipora (class-10 class-9 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-upora (class-11 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-kupora (class-15 class-17 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-papora (class-16 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-mupora (class-18 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-jipora (indicative object-concord reflexive)
-poraye (class-1 class-2 object-concord relative singular)
-porao (class-1 class-2 object-concord plural relative)
-porao (class-3 class-4 object-concord relative singular)
-porayo (class-3 class-4 object-concord plural relative)
-poralo (class-5 class-6 object-concord relative singular)
-porayo (class-5 class-6 object-concord plural relative)
-poracho (class-7 class-8 object-concord relative singular)
-poravyo (class-7 class-8 object-concord plural relative)
-porayo (class-10 class-9 object-concord relative singular)
-porazo (class-10 class-9 object-concord plural relative)
-porao (class-11 object-concord relative singular)
-porako (class-15 class-17 object-concord relative singular)
-porapo (class-16 object-concord relative singular)
-poramo (class-18 object-concord relative singular)
-yepora (class-1 class-2 object-concord relative singular)
-opora (class-1 class-2 object-concord plural relative)
-opora (class-3 class-4 object-concord relative singular)
-yopora (class-3 class-4 object-concord plural relative)
-lopora (class-5 class-6 object-concord relative singular)
-yopora (class-5 class-6 object-concord plural relative)
-chopora (class-7 class-8 object-concord relative singular)
-vyopora (class-7 class-8 object-concord plural relative)
-yopora (class-10 class-9 object-concord relative singular)
-zopora (class-10 class-9 object-concord plural relative)
-opora (class-11 object-concord relative singular)
-kopora (class-15 class-17 object-concord relative singular)
-popora (class-16 object-concord relative singular)
-mopora (class-18 object-concord relative singular)