pullover

→ Bulgarian: пуловер (pulover)

→ Catalan: pul·lòver

→ Danish: pullover

→ Esperanto: pulovero

→ French: pull-over

→ Gulf Arabic: بلوڤر (blōvar)

→ German: Pullover

→ Hungarian: pulóver

→ Greek: πουλόβερ (poulóver)

→ Italian: pullover

→ Japanese: プルオーバー (puruōbā)

→ Georgian: პულოვერი (ṗuloveri)

→ Korean: 풀오버 (purobeo)

→ Polish: pulower

→ Portuguese: pulôver

→ Russian: пуло́вер (pulóver)

→ Sicilian: pullover

→ Spanish: pulóver

→ Swedish: pullover

I followed my training in the academy regarding vehicle pullovers.

2010, D. E. Gray, The Warrior in Me, page 23:

(chiefly law enforcement) An instance of a vehicle being pulled over.


gerrymander

en-verb

gerrymander (third-person singular simple present gerrymanders, present participle gerrymandering, simple past and past participle gerrymandered)

Elkanah Tisdale
Nathan Hale (journalist)
gerrymandering

gerrymanders (present singular third-person)
gerrymandering (participle present)
gerrymandered (participle past)
gerrymandered (past)

/ˈdʒɛɹiˌmændə/

/ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌmændɚ/

Blend of Gerry + salamander (named after Elbridge Gerry), from the similarity in shape to a salamander of an electoral district created when Gerry was the governor of Massachusetts. Coined by editors of the Boston Gazette 26 March 1812, in text likely written by Nathan Hale and Benjamin and John Russell, and accompanying a cartoon by Elkanah Tisdale.

coin

Westminster City Council has been accused by the District Auditor of using public money to gerrymander marginal wards for the 1990 Borough elections. The strategy of attempting to 'gentrify' eight key wards, selling off council homes and hostels for the homeless to move out potential Labour voters and attract in more Conservative voters, was in conflict with the council's statutory duty to homeless people

2000, Hugo de Burgh, Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 207:

Fermanagh Council even went so far as to create the new village of Donagh in an attempt to move Catholics out of Newtownbutler, four miles away, so unionists could gerrymander a majority.

2022 December 1, Trevor Birney, Quinn, Merrion Press, →ISBN:

(transitive, derogatory, by extension, chiefly UK and Ireland) To deliberately bring in voters of one's own party or displace voters of another party from a voting district in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.


gerrymander

/ˈdʒɛɹiˌmændə/

/ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌmændɚ/

Elkanah Tisdale
Nathan Hale (journalist)

Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.

(derogatory) A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.

manipulált választókerület (határú)

a voting district skewed by gerrymandering


mob

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”). The video-gaming sense originates from English mobile, used by Richard Bartle for objects capable of movement in an early MUD.

der

The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:

What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …

1986, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Under the Desert Stars, Dark Horse Books:

See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)

A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.


impunity

en-noun

impunity (countable and uncountable, plural impunities)

From Middle French impunité, from Latin impunitas, from impunis (“without punishment”).

(countable, law) Exemption from punishment.


killing

en-adj

killing (comparative more killing, superlative most killing)

more killing (comparative)
most killing (superlative)

From Middle English kyllyng; equivalent to kill + -ing.

That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.


wetting

Earned my name name for all of them wettings
If I let you live, then give blessings

2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, here Taze (lyrics and music), “Anti”, 3:01–3:05:

(US, MLE, slang) An act of murdering or seriously injuring someone.


hoosegow

From informal spoken Spanish juzgao, variant of standard Spanish juzgado (“court, courthouse”). Alteration of pronunciation and spelling by law of Hobson-Jobson.

There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the hoosegow for just whistlin that.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 424:

Philip Zimbardo set up a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology department, divided the participants at random into ‘prisoners’ and ‘guards,’ and even got the Palo Alto police to arrest the prisoners and haul them to the campus hoosegow.

2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 674:


backup

→ Danish: backup

→ Italian: backup

→ Japanese: バックアップ (bakkuappu)

→ Korean: 백업 (baegeop)

→ Portuguese: backup, becape

→ Swedish: backup

He's got a gun! You'd better send for backup.

Shaman: My patience is tested, but Uvenk invokes correctly. Grunt, who is your krantt? Your allies willing to kill and die on your behalf?
Shepard: How is a candidate tested if he brings backup on his Rite of Passage?
Shaman: Not every krogan can be the strongest warrior, but each must inspire his peers to battle at his side.
Shaman: If the ones who know you best can find nothing worthy in you, you should wander the wastes and die alone before you weaken my clan.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:


contraband

en-noun

contraband (usually uncountable, plural contrabands)

From Spanish contrabanda (modern spelling contrabando), from Italian contrabando (modern spelling contrabbando), from contra (“against”) + bando (“ban”), and reinforced by French contrebande.

(uncountable) Any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess.

While some Yanks treated contrabands with a degree of equity or benevolence, the more typical response was indifference, contempt, or cruelty.

1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 497:

(countable, US, historical) A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured by, Union forces.


contraband

en-verb

contraband (third-person singular simple present contrabands, present participle contrabanding, simple past and past participle contrabanded)

contrabands (present singular third-person)
contrabanding (participle present)
contrabanded (participle past)
contrabanded (past)

there are also searched for concealed Slaves, and goods contrabanded

1615, George Sandys, “The Second Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 87:

(obsolete) To import illegally; to smuggle.


fraudulent

en-adj

fraudulent (comparative more fraudulent, superlative most fraudulent)

more fraudulent (comparative)
most fraudulent (superlative)

From Middle English fraudulent, from Old French fraudulent, from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus (“fraud”).

He tried to pass a fraudulent check.


fraudulent

English: fraudulent

From Middle French fraudulent, itself borrowed from Latin fraudulentus.

Necrotic, rotting; infected with or afflicted with gangrene.


behind bars

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXVII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1906 February 26, →OCLC:

Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses.

2001 May 7, Margot Roosevelt et al., “The War Against The War On Drugs”, in Time:

Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police.

2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:

(figuratively, idiomatic) In jail, in prison.


cruiser

(US, law enforcement) A police patrol vehicle.


workhouse

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, it boasts of one which is common to most towns, great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, […] the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

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

"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." / "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve.[…]"

1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:

(British, historical) An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.


sheepdog

(US, slang, law enforcement) A police officer.


vested interest

en-noun

vested interest (plural vested interests)

Popularized in sociology by Thorstein Veblen, The Vested Interests and the Common Man (1919).

Today, under compulsion of patriotic devotion, fear, shame and bitter need, and under the unprecedentedly shrewd surveillance of public officers bent on maximum production, the great essential industries controlled by the vested interests may, one with another, be considered to approach—perhaps even conceivably to exceed—a fifty-percent efficiency; […]

1920 [1919], Thorstein Veblen, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, New York: B. W. Huebsch, page 78:

But it was not a question of evidence, of guilt or innocence. Tom Mooney was bitterly hated by the vested interests of San Francisco. He had to be gotten out of the way.

1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 8, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC:

On this point there was no difference between mercantilists and feudalists, between crowned planners and vested interests, between centralizing bureaucrats and conservative particularists.

1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 6, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 70:

It should now be obvious to everyone that vested interests only change when they are forced to do so.

2019, Danny Burns, Cordula Reimann, “Movement Building”, in Extinction Rebellion, editor, This Is Not A Drill, London: Penguin, →ISBN:

She listed “Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, the militant unions, the vested interests, the talking heads, the Brexit deniers, Extinction Rebellion and some of the people we had in the hall earlier” as those who she thought were working against the interests of growth.

2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, quoting Liz Truss, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian:

(in the plural) A group of people or organizations with such a stake, especially those that seek to control an existing system or activity from which they derive benefit.

ذینفع

a group of people or organizations with such a stake


basa

basový (adjective)
basa (nominative singular)
basy (nominative plural)
basy (genitive singular)
bas (genitive plural)
base (dative singular)
basám (dative plural)
basu (accusative singular)
basy (accusative plural)
baso (singular vocative)
basy (plural vocative)
base (locative singular)
basách (locative plural)
basou (instrumental singular)
basami (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from German Bass or French basse. The meaning “prison” was probably based on French au violon (“in prison”, literally “in violin”). The meaning “bottle crate” was probably derived from that, with the bottles being confined in the crate.

der

(informal, expressive) prison (a place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes)


descendre

descendre (infinitive)
avoir (infinitive multiword-construction)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
descendant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
descendu (participle past)
descends (first-person indicative present singular)
descends (indicative present second-person singular)
descend (indicative present singular third-person)
descendons (first-person indicative plural present)
descendez (indicative plural present second-person)
descendent (indicative plural present third-person)
descendais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
descendais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
descendait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
descendions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
descendiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
descendaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
descendis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
descendis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
descendit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
descendîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
descendîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
descendirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
descendrai (first-person future indicative singular)
descendras (future indicative second-person singular)
descendra (future indicative singular third-person)
descendrons (first-person future indicative plural)
descendrez (future indicative plural second-person)
descendront (future indicative plural third-person)
descendrais (conditional first-person singular)
descendrais (conditional second-person singular)
descendrait (conditional singular third-person)
descendrions (conditional first-person plural)
descendriez (conditional plural second-person)
descendraient (conditional plural third-person)
present indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
imperfect indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
past historic of avoir (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
être + past participle (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
future of avoir (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
descende (first-person present singular subjunctive)
descendes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
descende (present singular subjunctive third-person)
descendions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
descendiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
descendent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
descendisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
descendisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
descendît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
descendissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
descendissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
descendissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
present subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
imperfect subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
descends (imperative second-person singular)
descendons (first-person imperative plural)
descendez (imperative plural second-person)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
simple imperative of avoir (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
être + past participle (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French descendre, from Old French descendre, borrowed from Latin descendere.


purloin

en-verb

purloin (third-person singular simple present purloins, present participle purloining, simple past and past participle purloined)

purloins (present singular third-person)
purloining (participle present)
purloined (participle past)
purloined (past)

From Middle English purloynen (“to remove”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman purloigner (“to put far away”), one of the variants of Old French porloignier. Doublet of prolong.

der

Had from his wakeful custody purloined / The guarded gold.

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Probably my acquaintance, Mr Blank, therefore, would have been able, if he had so wished to do, to purloin the papers which he mentioned.

1900, One Who Was in It, chapter 8, in Kruger's Secret Service, pages 168–169:

The refreshment room was full of chatter and babble, which attracted everybody's envious glances. Some one had left his set in the middle of the dance, purloined a sandwich from the buffet, and was now chewing away proudly as he swerved and stamped, to the amusement of the rest.

1916, chapter 4, in A. Cecil Curtis, transl., Royal Highness, translation of Königliche Hoheit by Thomas Mann:

Or was this simply another item Mr. Stink had purloined during his career as a gentleman thief?

2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

(transitive, usually formal or humorous) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.


zero tolerance

I get weary of this zero tolerance bullshit. It's annoying. To begin with, it's a fascist concept; it's what Hitler and Stalin practiced. It allows for no exceptions or compassion of any kind. All is black and white—no gradations. But even more important, it doesn't solve anything. The use of such a slogan simply allows whichever company, school or municipality is using it to claim they're doing something about a problem when, in fact, nothing is being done at all and the problem is being ignored. It's a cosmetic non-solution designed to impress simpletons. Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you.

2004, George Carlin, “ZERO TOLERANCE”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 84:

The strict policy of enforcing law(s) or the rule(s), and allowing no toleration or compromise even for first-time offenders or petty violations.

零容忍

strict policy of enforcing all the laws or rules


delito

Borrowed from Latin dēlictum. Cognate with English delict.


老虎

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ŋɔu¹³ fu³⁵/

/lau²¹³⁻²⁴ ˈfu²¹³/

/lo²⁴⁻³³ fu²⁴/

/lau⁵³⁻¹¹ xu⁵³/

/l̃au²⁴²⁻⁵³ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾u³³/

/lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hɔ⁵³/

/lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hɔ⁵⁵⁴/

/lau³³⁻²¹ hɔ⁴¹/

/lau²²⁻²¹ hɔ⁴²/

/lau²¹ hɔ⁴⁴⁵/

/lau³³⁻¹¹ hɔ⁵³/

/lau³⁵⁻¹¹ hõũ⁵²/

/læ²² həu³³/

/lɒu̯⁴¹ ɸu³/

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ŋɔu¹³ fu³⁵/

/lau²¹³⁻²⁴ ˈfu²¹³/

/lo²⁴⁻³³ fu²⁴/

/lau⁵³⁻¹¹ xu⁵³/

/l̃au²⁴²⁻⁵³ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾u³³/

/lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hɔ⁵³/

/lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hɔ⁵⁵⁴/

/lau³³⁻²¹ hɔ⁴¹/

/lau²²⁻²¹ hɔ⁴²/

/lau²¹ hɔ⁴⁴⁵/

/lau³³⁻¹¹ hɔ⁵³/

/lau³⁵⁻¹¹ hõũ⁵²/

/læ²² həu³³/

/lɒu̯⁴¹ ɸu³/

老 (lǎo, “old; venerable”) is used to indicate respect for the dangerous animal, which is subject to taboo. Compare ancient Chu dialect 於菟.

There simply isn't a single tiger within the 10-mile radius.

Zài zhè fāngyuán shí lǐ zhīnèi gēnběn jiù méiyǒu lǎohǔ.

在這方圓十里之內根本就沒有老虎。

在这方圆十里之内根本就没有老虎。

(figurative) one who uses one's power and influence to engage in large-scale embezzlement, theft or tax evasion


donkey bid

A fake bid at an auction, used by the auctioneer to raise the price and thus raise the commission.


racket

From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin.
Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”).
Alternatively, the term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).

unc

uncertain origin

der

رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد

“In the doctor's team, many such topics have come up in their WhatsApp group, some screenshots of this have also reached us like drugs, racket, sex racket. The names of a TMC MP and his nephew are coming up again and again, I don't know what happened but something is wrong,”

2024, Digital Desk, RG Kar Hospital A Centre of Porn-Sex-Drug Racket? Kolkata Doctor's Rape-Murder Case Turns Murkier:

Effacing the truth. A generally small group of people in the know putting on a false persona or narrative to deceive many. Originaged in 1935 from Gen. Smedley Butler's book War Is a Racket.


bump

en-verb

bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)

bumps (present singular third-person)
bumping (participle present)
bumped (participle past)
bumped (past)
Lighter (canonical)
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volume 47 (canonical)
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page 24 (canonical)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

cog

(criminal slang and US military slang, circa 1920–1950) To encounter and stop, to catch.


ultrajar

es-verb

ultrajar (first-person singular present ultrajo, first-person singular preterite ultrajé, past participle ultrajado)

ultrajo (first-person present singular)
ultrajé (first-person preterite singular)
ultrajado (participle past)
ultrajar (infinitive)
ultrajando (gerund)
ultrajado (masculine participle past singular)
ultrajada (feminine participle past singular)
ultrajados (masculine participle past plural)
ultrajadas (feminine participle past plural)
ultrajo (first-person indicative present singular)
ultrajas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
ultrajás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
ultraja (indicative present singular third-person)
ultrajamos (first-person indicative plural present)
ultrajáis (indicative plural present second-person)
ultrajan (indicative plural present third-person)
ultrajaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ultrajabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ultrajaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ultrajábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ultrajabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
ultrajaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ultrajé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
ultrajaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ultrajó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ultrajamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ultrajasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
ultrajaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ultrajaré (first-person future indicative singular)
ultrajarás (future indicative second-person singular)
ultrajará (future indicative singular third-person)
ultrajaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
ultrajaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
ultrajarán (future indicative plural third-person)
ultrajaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
ultrajarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
ultrajaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
ultrajaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
ultrajaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
ultrajarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
ultraje (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ultrajes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
ultrajés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
ultraje (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ultrajemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ultrajéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ultrajen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
ultrajara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ultrajaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ultrajara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ultrajáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
ultrajarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ultrajaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ultrajase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
ultrajases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
ultrajase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
ultrajásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
ultrajaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
ultrajasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
ultrajare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
ultrajares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
ultrajare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
ultrajáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
ultrajareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
ultrajaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
ultraja (imperative informal second-person singular)
ultrajá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
ultraje (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
ultraje (imperative singular third-person)
ultrajemos (first-person imperative plural)
ultrajad (imperative plural second-person)
ultrajen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
ultrajen (imperative plural third-person)
ultrajes (imperative negative second-person singular)
ultraje (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
ultraje (imperative negative singular third-person)
ultrajemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
ultrajéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
ultrajen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
ultrajen (imperative negative plural third-person)
ultrajarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
ultrajarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
ultrajarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
ultrajarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
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ultrajándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
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ultrajándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
ultrajándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
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ultrajándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
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ultrájale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
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ultrájame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
ultrájate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
ultrájalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
ultrájala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
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ultrájalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
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ultrájese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
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ultrájeles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
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ultrájelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
ultrájela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
ultrájese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
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ultrájelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
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ultrajémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
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ultrajémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
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ultrajémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
ultrajémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
ultrajémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
ultrajadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
ultrajadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrajadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
ultrajaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
ultrajadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrajadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
ultrajadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrajadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrajadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
ultrajaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
ultrajadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrajadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrájenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
ultrájenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrájennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
ultrájenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrájense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrájenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
ultrájenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrájenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrájennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
ultrájenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrájenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
ultrájense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

(Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela, transitive) to rape


WPC

woman police constable
woman police constable#English

(UK, law enforcement, historical) Initialism of woman police constable, a former police rank.


DPC

PW4 (DPC 13900) was at the checkline junction Luard Road near Jaffe Road. They were there to prevent protesters rushing in to block the road from Luard Road.

Paragraph 67, HKSAR v Tong Ying Kit/Reasons for Verdict ([2021] HKCFI 2200)

(Hong Kong, law enforcement) Initialism of detective police constable.

(India, law enforcement) Initialism of District Police Chief. A police officer in charge of a police district in the Kerala State Police.


cellule

→ Persian: سلول (sellul)


filch

Georges de la Tour
Metropolitan Museum of Art

From Middle English filchen (“to pilfer, steal”). The further origin of the word is uncertain, but it is likely from or related to Old English fylċian (“to marshal troops”) and Old English ġefylċe (“band of men, army, host”), which would make it also related to folk.

der

By the appropriation clause, which is here referred to, it was proposed to apply a part of the property of the Irish Church to secular purposes, that is, to work a transfer of property, with an alteration of its uses. Call this as you will, a spoliation, or wise application, it implies a loss to one and a gain to other, of the same property. In the evil sense, it means spoliation, or wrongful deprival, appropriation, or "conveyance" in the sense of a filch.

1860, Lawrence Peel, “To John B[acon] S[awrey] Morritt, Esq., Portland Place, London [letter from Sir Walter Scott]”, in A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel, London: Longman, Green, Longma, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 173:


brigand

From Middle English brigaunt, bregaund circa 1400, from Old French brigand (“foot soldier”) attested from 1421, from Italian briga (“trouble, bother”), perhaps ultimately of Proto-Germanic or Celtic origin.


untar

es-verb

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite unté, past participle untado)

unto (first-person present singular)
unté (first-person preterite singular)
untado (participle past)
untar (infinitive)
untando (gerund)
untado (masculine participle past singular)
untada (feminine participle past singular)
untados (masculine participle past plural)
untadas (feminine participle past plural)
unto (first-person indicative present singular)
untas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
untás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
unta (indicative present singular third-person)
untamos (first-person indicative plural present)
untáis (indicative plural present second-person)
untan (indicative plural present third-person)
untaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
untabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
untaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
untábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
untabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
untaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
unté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
untaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
untó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
untamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
untasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
untaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
untaré (first-person future indicative singular)
untarás (future indicative second-person singular)
untará (future indicative singular third-person)
untaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
untaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
untarán (future indicative plural third-person)
untaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
untarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
untaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
untaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
untaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
untarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
unte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
untes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
untés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
unte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
untemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
untéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
unten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
untara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
untaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
untara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
untáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
untarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
untaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
untase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
untases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
untase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
untásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
untaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
untasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
untare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
untares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
untare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
untáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
untareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
untaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
unta (imperative informal second-person singular)
untá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
unte (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
unte (imperative singular third-person)
untemos (first-person imperative plural)
untad (imperative plural second-person)
unten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
unten (imperative plural third-person)
untes (imperative negative second-person singular)
unte (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
unte (imperative negative singular third-person)
untemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
untéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
unten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
unten (imperative negative plural third-person)
untarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
untarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
untarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
untarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
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untarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
untarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
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untarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
untándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
untándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
untándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
untándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
untándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
untándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
untándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
untándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
untándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
untándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
untándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
untándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
untándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
untándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
untándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
untándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
untándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
untándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
úntame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
úntate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
úntale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
úntanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
úntales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
úntame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
úntate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
úntalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
úntala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
úntanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
úntalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
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untame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
untate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
untale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
untanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
untales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
untame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
untate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
untalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
untala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
untanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
untalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
untalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
únteme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
úntele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
úntese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
úntenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
únteles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
únteme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
úntelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
úntela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
úntese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
úntenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
úntelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
úntelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
untémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
untémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
untémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
untémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
untémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
untémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
untémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
untémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
untémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
untémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
untémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
untémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
untadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
untadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
untadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
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untadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
untadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
untadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
untadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
untadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
untaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
untadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
untadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
úntenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
úntenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
úntennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
úntenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
úntense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
úntenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
úntenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
úntenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
úntennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
úntenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
úntenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
úntense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

Inherited from Old Spanish untar, from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

pasta para untar

(transitive) to spread, to smear; to rub on (to distribute in a thin layer over)

medios untados

(transitive, colloquial) to bribe (to ask a person to do something in exchange for a reward)


borstal

Inherited from Middle English *borstile, *borghstile, from Old English beorh (“a hill”) + stigel (“a stile”).
The institutions are named after Borstal Prison in Borstal, Rochester, Kent, England.

(UK) A way up a hill in the South Downs.

(historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.

You have juvenile courts. Do you have borstal institutions for juveniles?

2004, August 3, Speaker of the Kenyan National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record, Hansard, page 3126

Seven years ago, I was sent to borstal. Slithering around in the societal sludge, I was forced to admit I'd made a huge mistake – committing robbery.

2011 November 7, Paris Lees, “My Transsexual Summer: a new view of gender”, in The Guardian:

(British, Ireland) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.


profil

profil (nominative singular)
profile (nominative plural)
profilu (genitive singular)
profili (genitive plural)
profilów (genitive plural)
profilowi (dative singular)
profilom (dative plural)
profil (accusative singular)
profile (accusative plural)
profilem (instrumental singular)
profilami (instrumental plural)
profilu (locative singular)
profilach (locative plural)
profilu (singular vocative)
profile (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French profil, from Italian profilo.

(criminology, psychology) offender profile


witness tampering

From witness + tampering. First use appears c. 1902 in the Indianapolis Sun.

(law, criminology) The act of attempting to improperly alter, influence or prevent the testimony of witnesses within civil or criminal proceedings.


kickback

en-noun

kickback (countable and uncountable, plural kickbacks)

Central to his [Yury Skuratov's] investigation were kickbacks supposedly paid by a Swiss construction company for contracts to restore government buildings, including both houses of parliament.

2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 4, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 65:

You sell cars and help arrange car insurance for buyers. Insurance brokers pay back part of their commissions to you for referring customers to them. You must include the kickbacks in your income.

2021 February 11, “Publication 17 (2020), Your Federal Income Tax”, in irs.gov, Internal Revenue Service, retrieved 2021-08-24, Kickbacks:

(countable, informal) A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; especially, a kind of quid pro quo in which if you (an insider) secretly help me (an outsider) win the bid for the contract then I will secretly send you a portion of the contract value; thus, a kind of bribe.

für eine Gefälligkeit heimlich ausgezahlter Geldbetrag


identikit

(Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) identikit, police sketch, composite sketch, facial composite


all-nighter

From all-night + -er = all- + night + -er.

(UK, crime, slang) A session with a prostitute covering the entire night.

(UK, crime, slang) A client of a prostitute who has paid for the entire night.

(US, crime, slang) A criminal or other person kept in jail over night.


cuarto

→ Tagalog: kuwarto

From Latin quartus. Doublet of cuarta. The sense of room is after a common division of houses (4 or 5 sections). As a unit of English measure, calque of English quart. Compare English quarter.

fourth, quarter (one of four equal divisions of a whole)

(historical) cuarto, quarter-sack (a traditional unit of dry measure equal to ¹⁄₄ saco, equivalent to about 27.8 L)

(genealogy) line, lineage (any of the four main lines of ancestry through one's various grandparents)

(historical) cuarto (a former copper Spanish coin)


underworld

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That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice, and particularly those involved in organized crime.

onderwêreld

part of society engaged in crime or vice


sixty-one

(US, New York, informal) A police officer's report detailing a crime reported by a civilian.


amber alert

After Amber Hagerman (1986–1996), a girl who was abducted and killed in Arlington, Texas. The upper-case spelling indicates a backronym: America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response.

(US, Canada) A public notification of a child abduction.


解決

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (解決):
* → Japanese: 解決(かいけつ) (kaiketsu)
* → Korean: 해결(解決) (haegyeol)
* → Vietnamese: giải quyết (解決)

/t͡ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

/kaːi̯³⁵ kʰyːt̚³/

/t͡ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

/kaːi̯³⁵ kʰyːt̚³/


culprit

From Anglo-Norman cul. prit, contraction of culpable: prest (d'averrer nostre bille) 'guilty: ready (to prove our case)', words used by prosecutor in opening a trial, mistaken in English for an address to the defendant. See culpable. It may have been influenced by Latin culpa (“blame, fault”).

(UK, law) A prisoner accused but not yet tried.


slaughter

en-noun

slaughter (countable and uncountable, plural slaughters)

From Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later sláttr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtrą, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną. Equivalent to slay + -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten, Finnish lahdata (all “to slaughter”).

der

1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416,
For ſin, on war and mutual ſlaughter bent.

[…] I ſee
Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.

1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:

A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.


recess

en-noun

recess (countable and uncountable, plural recesses)

The noun is borrowed from Latin recessus (“act of going back, departure, receding, retiring; (figuratively) retreat, withdrawal; (metonymically) distant, secluded, or secret spot, corner, nook, retreat; recessed part, indentation”) (also Late Latin recessus (“decree or resolution of the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire”)), from recēdō (“to go back, recede, retire, withdraw; to go away, depart; (by extension) to disappear, vanish; to separate; to stand back, be distant; to yield”) (from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + cēdō (“to go, move, proceed”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs); influenced by Middle French recès, French recès (“a break, pause; break between classes in school; school vacation; ebbing of tide; reduction”) (also Anglo-Norman recès and Old French recès (“hiding place; hollow”).
Sense 5 (“decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, etc.”) is possibly influenced by Italian recesso and refers to a decree or resolution made just before a meeting ends.
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
cognates
* Catalan recés
* Italian recesso
* Middle French recès (modern French recès)
* Portuguese recesso
* Spanish receso

syvyys

hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place

فُسْحة

temporary stoppage of an activity — see also break, pause

(countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.

(criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.

vessa

(slang) place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located


Verbrechen

de-noun

Verbrechen n (strong, genitive Verbrechens, plural Verbrechen)

Verbrechens (genitive)
Verbrechen (plural)
Verbrechen (nominative singular)
Verbrechen (definite nominative plural)
Verbrechens (genitive singular)
Verbrechen (definite genitive plural)
Verbrechen (dative singular)
Verbrechen (dative definite plural)
Verbrechen (accusative singular)
Verbrechen (accusative definite plural)

[fɐˈbʁɛ.çn̩]

17th century, nominalised infinitive of verbrechen (now in limited use), from Middle High German verbrechen (“to breach, violate”). Equivalent to ver- + brechen (“to break”).

der

(countable, law, technical) a felony, indictable offence

(countable, in common use often) a crime; any criminal offence

(uncountable, common use) crime (illegal activity as such, at large; criminals collectively)


polis

az-noun

polis (definite accusative polisi, plural polislər)

polisi (accusative definite)
polislər (plural)
polis (nominative singular)
polislər (nominative plural)
polisi (accusative definite singular)
polisləri (accusative definite plural)
polisə (dative singular)
polislərə (dative plural)
polisdə (locative singular)
polislərdə (locative plural)
polisdən (ablative singular)
polislərdən (ablative plural)
polisin (definite genitive singular)
polislərin (definite genitive plural)
polisim (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
polislərim (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
polisin (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
polislərin (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
polisi (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
polisləri (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
polisimiz (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
polislərimiz (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
polisiniz (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
polisləriniz (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
polisi (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polisləri (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polisləri (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
polisimi (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
polislərimi (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
polisini (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
polislərini (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
polisini (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
polislərini (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
polisimizi (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
polislərimizi (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
polisinizi (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
polislərinizi (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
polisini (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərini (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərini (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
polisimə (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
polislərimə (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
polisinə (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
polislərinə (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
polisinə (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
polislərinə (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
polisimizə (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
polislərimizə (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
polisinizə (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
polislərinizə (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
polisinə (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərinə (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərinə (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
polisimdə (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
polislərimdə (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
polisində (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
polislərində (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
polisində (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
polislərində (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
polisimizdə (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
polislərimizdə (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
polisinizdə (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
polislərinizdə (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
polisində (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərində (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərində (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
polisimdən (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
polislərimdən (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
polisindən (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
polislərindən (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
polisindən (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
polislərindən (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
polisimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
polislərimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
polisinizdən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
polislərinizdən (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
polisindən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərindən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərindən (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
polisimin (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
polislərimin (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
polisinin (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
polislərinin (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
polisinin (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
polislərinin (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
polisimizin (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
polislərimizin (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
polisinizin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
polislərinizin (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
polisinin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərinin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
polislərinin (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

polis idarəsi

polis şöbəsi

polis əməkdaşı

police (an organisation that enforces the law)


polis

From English police, from Middle French police, from Latin politia (“state, government”), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía).

a civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order


polis

ms-noun

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

ڤوليس (Jawi)
polis-polis (plural)
polisku (first-person informal possessive)
polismu (possessive second-person)
polisnya (possessive third-person)

Comparison of Standard Malay and Indonesian

(Malaysia, Singapore, Riau) police, a civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.


CID

(British, law enforcement, initialism) Scotland Yard Criminal Investigation Department

(US, military, law enforcement, initialism) U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command

(US, military, law enforcement, initialism) Former name of NCIS. (Naval Criminal Investigation Division)


desperado

en-noun

desperado (plural desperadoes or desperados)

desperadoes (plural)
desperados (plural)

/dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/

From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.

der

The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.

1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The present time”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets:

Surely this was the face of a desperado.

1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 6:

A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.


receiver

From Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.

curator

person appointed to settle financial affairs

прыёмнік

electronic device that receives and converts signal

(now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.


dit

(law enforcement) Clipping of direktorat (“directorate”).


peeler

From the surname of Sir Robert Peel, who established the Irish constabulary and London's police force; compare bobby, from the given name.

A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;
He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go.
And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun—
'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone."

1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark:

I’d covered pretty nearly two miles before I came across a peeler, — and when I did the man was cracked — and he thought me mad, or drunk, or both. By the time I’d got myself within nodding distance of being run in for obstructing the police in the execution of their duty, […] Holt was out of sight.

I was standin' there and the car came down the street with the two peelers comin' after them and I'm standin' here with [my son] in my arms.

2004, Alice McIntyre, Women in Belfast: How Violence Shapes Identity, →ISBN, page 57:

How do you fight back to get your right back to walk free down the street when your name and address singles you out for every Peeler on the beat?

2004, “Don’t Hand Me Over”, in The Box Set 1964-2004(2004) No.2, performed by Christy Moore:

Special Irish Branch was looking for Fenians in South Kensington; going from there to a Catholic church for Easter Mass was very nearly the stupidest thing Eliza could do, short of walking into Scotland Yard and cursing the peelers out in Irish.

2011, Marie Brennan, With Fate Conspire, →ISBN:

It was Jem and Georgie that was in mortal danger, true, but there was not one of us that wanted the peelers asking us questions.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A police officer.


treason

en-noun

treason (countable and uncountable, plural treasons)

From Middle English tresoun, treison, from Anglo-Norman treson, from Old French traïson (“treason”), from trair, or from Latin trāditiō (“a giving up, handing over, surrender, delivery, tradition”), from trādō (“give up, hand over, deliver over, betray”, verb), from trāns- (“over, across”) + dō (“give”). Doublet of tradition.

der

Treaſon doth never [pro]ſper: what's the reaſon? / For yf yt [pro]ſper none dare call yt treaſon

c. 1605, John Harington, “42: Of Treason”, in Epigrams (British Library Additional MS. 12049), Book III, folio 75, verso; republished at London: British Library Digitised Manuscripts, 2020 September 17:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unleſs on the Testimony of two Witneſses to the same overt Act, or on Confeſsion in open Court.

1787 September 17, Alexander Hamilton et al., “Article III, Section 3”, in Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia: Jacob Shallus:

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination: treason in high places can be found at almost every turning.

1964 November 20, Richard J. Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, in Robert Shnayerson, editor, Harper's Magazine, New York City: Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company:

The crime of betraying one’s own country.


house arrest

en-noun

house arrest (countable and uncountable, plural house arrests)

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

Convicted in Federal District Court in Brooklyn of insurance fraud, a 35-year-old legal secretary could have received up to 50 years in prison and a $56,000 fine. The judge sentenced her instead to house arrest for two years.

1986 July 20, Richard Haitch, “Follow-up on the News: House Arrest Instead of Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-04-27:

(law) Confinement of a person to his or her residence, sometimes with a limited travel allowance, ordered by a judge or other authority as a more lenient alternative to imprisonment.

إقامة جبرية

confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence


оборотень

ru-noun+

о́боротень • (óborotenʹ) m anim (genitive о́боротня, nominative plural о́боротни, genitive plural о́боротней)

о́боротень (canonical)
óborotenʹ (romanization)
о́боротня (genitive)
о́боротни (nominative plural)
о́боротней (genitive plural)
о́боротень (nominative singular)
о́боротни (nominative plural)
о́боротня (genitive singular)
о́боротней (genitive plural)
о́боротню (dative singular)
о́боротням (dative plural)
о́боротня (accusative singular)
о́боротней (accusative plural)
о́боротнем (instrumental singular)
о́боротнями (instrumental plural)
о́боротне (prepositional singular)
о́боротнях (plural prepositional)

Ru-оборотень.ogg

о́боротни в пого́нах


set up

en-verb

set up (third-person singular simple present sets up, present participle setting up, simple past and past participle set up)

sets up (present singular third-person)
setting up (participle present)
set up (participle past)
set up (past)

They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.

(informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.


war crime

/ˈwɔɹ ˌkɹaɪm/

[W]ar crimes are such hostile or other acts of soldiers or other individuals as may be punished by the enemy on capture of the offenders. […] [A]lthough among the acts called war crimes are many which, such as abuse of a flag of truce or assassination of enemy soldiers for instance, are crimes in the moral sense of the term, there are others which, such as taking part in a levy en masse on territory occupied by the enemy for instance, may be highly praiseworthy patriotic acts. Because every belligerent can and actually must in the interest of his own safety punish these acts, they are termed war crimes, whatever may be the motive, the purpose, and the moral character of the respective act.

1906, L[assa Francis Lawrence] Oppenheim, “Means of Securing Legitimate Warfare”, in International Law: A Treatise, volumes II (War and Neutrality), London, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, part II (War), section IV (Punishment of War Crimes), § 251, pages 263–264:

[Paragraph] 441. The term "War Crime" is the technical expression for such an act of enemy soldiers and enemy civilians as may be visited by punishment or capture of the offenders. […] [Paragraph] 442. War crimes may be divided into four different classes:– (i) Violations of the recognized rules of warfare by members of the armed forces. (ii) Illegitimate hostilities in arms committed by individuals who are not members of the armed forces. (iii) Espionage and war treason. (iv) Marauding.

1914, J[ames] E[dward] Edmonds, L[assa Francis Lawrence] Oppenheim, “The Laws and Usages of War on Land”, in Hugh Godley, editor, Manual of Military Law, 6th edition, London: War Office; His Majesty’s Stationery Office, published 1917, →OCLC, page 302:

If, this time, there is going to be, after the victory of the United Nations, due punishment of these abominable war crimes, perpetrated in breach of the laws of war by enemy nations and for which enemy individuals must be held responsible, it would be a grave mistake to concern ourselves at this stage merely with the discussion of the most appropriate tribunals to deal with such charges, or with the minutiae of juridical analysis.

1942 October 7, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, “[Collective Notes Presented to the Governments of Great Britain, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. and Relative Correspondence] Statement of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords”, in Punishment for War Crimes, New York, N.Y.: United Nations Information Office, published [1943], →OCLC, page 30:

To be sure, there is a strong argument that aiding and abetting a recognized international-law war crime such as terrorism is itself an international-law war crime. And there are other similar war crimes.

2012 October 16, Brett Kavanaugh, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, “Hamdan v. United States [No. 11-1257]”, in West’s Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Courts of Appeals (3d Series), volume 696, St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, paragraph 66, page 1251:

To deal with war crime such as rape a mobile court system was created in the DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo].

2015, Mariam M. Kurtz, Mwamini Thambwe Diggs, “Wartime Rape: A Case Study of the Democratic Republic of Congo”, in Mariam M. Kurtz, Lester R. Kurtz, editors, Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope, volume 1, Santa Barbara, Calif., Denver, Colo.: Praeger Security International, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 193:

The two primary ones are that by the time anyone bothered to codify rules of war, lighthouses went on the list of "do not attack" pretty much immediately, and so it would be a rather pointless war crime to commit; the second reason is related to why they went on the list of "do not attack" targets very quickly, and that is that lighthouses are completely nondiscriminatory as to who they alert to what's going on in terms of danger and coastlines and hidden rocks and such[…]

2020 June 21, “Drachinifel” [pseudonym], “The Drydock” (6:33 from the start), in YouTube, episode 099, archived from the original on 2022-08-08:

Condoleezza Rice pops up on Fox to be told by the anchor: "When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime." With a solemn nod, the former secretary of state to George Bush replies: "It is certainly against every principle of international law and international order."

2022 March 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Western values? They enthroned the monster who is shelling Ukrainians today”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-14:

(criminal law, international law) A punishable offence under international law for violations of the laws of war by any person or persons, military or civilian.

criminal law; international law; criminal law; international law


slop

From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).

cog

(obsolete) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.


slop

en-noun

slop (countable and uncountable, plural slops)

Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cū-sloppe), related to slip.

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

2023 September 21, Kyle Barr, “YouTube Announces New Tools to Flood Its Platform With AI-Generated Slop”, in Gizmodo, retrieved 2024-05-08

His post describes a sense of unease, paranoia and loneliness, expressing deep disappointment at the state of the modern internet. He suggests that AI has successfully drowned out the majority of online human activity, reshaping the internet into a more controlled, algorithmic form that exists only to sell products and ideas.

2024 January 16, Dani Di Placido, “The Dead Internet Theory, Explained”, in Forbes.com, retrieved 2024-05-08:

Almost all of the AI-generated slop online is peddled for clicks on social media, not published by major news outlets. These publications still get tripped up, of course, but it's rare.

2024 April 4, USA Today, Don't be fooled by deepfake videos and photos this election cycle. Here's how to spot AI, retrieved 2024-05-08:

Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

“Society needs concise ways to talk about modern A.I. — both the positives and the negatives,” he said. “‘Ignore that email, it’s spam,’ and ‘Ignore that article, it’s slop,’ are both useful lessons.”

2024 June 11, Benjamin Hoffman, quoting Simon Willison, “First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

In many ways, political slop is a logical end point for these image generators, which seem most useful for people trying to make a quick buck.

2024 August 21, Charlie Warzel, “The MAGA Aesthetic Is AI Slop”, in The Atlantic:

“Coca-Cola just put out an ad and ruined Christmas,” Dylan Pearce, one of the campaign’s many critics, said on TikTok, adding, “To put out slop like this just ruins the Christmas spirit.”

2024 November 20, Alex Vadukul, “Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

generative artificial intelligence
generative artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published on the internet in the guise of legitimate content.


mugging

There have been three muggings in this street in the past week.

A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.

väkivaltainen ryöstö

a quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place


shooting

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.

2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5

Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

(countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms


identity theft

identity theft (countable and uncountable, plural identity thefts)

(law, criminology) The deliberate assumption of another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime.


козёл

ru-noun+

козёл • (kozjól) m anim or m inan (genitive козла́, nominative plural козлы́, genitive plural козло́в, feminine коза́, relational adjective козли́ный, diminutive ко́злик)

kozjól (romanization)
козла́ (genitive)
козлы́ (nominative plural)
козло́в (genitive plural)
коза́ (feminine)
козли́ный (adjective relational)
ко́злик (diminutive)
козёл (nominative singular)
козлы́ (nominative plural)
козла́ (genitive singular)
козло́в (genitive plural)
козлу́ (dative singular)
козла́м (dative plural)
козла́ (accusative animate singular)
козло́в (accusative animate plural)
козёл (accusative inanimate singular)
козлы́ (accusative inanimate plural)
козло́м (instrumental singular)
козла́ми (instrumental plural)
козле́ (prepositional singular)
козла́х (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic козьлъ (kozĭlŭ), from Proto-Slavic *kozьlъ (“he-goat”), from *koza (“she-goat”) + *-ьlъ.

inh+

(criminal slang, very offensive) an inmate who is an informer and collaborates with authorities

(criminal slang, very offensive) homosexual (usually passive)


PSNI

Byrne was already facing pressure after a major data breach from the PSNI last month. Personal data of all serving members of the PSNI was mistakenly published in response to a freedom of information request.

2023 September 4, Matthew Weaver, Lisa O'Carroll, “Northern Ireland police chief quits after series of controversies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Police Service of Northern Ireland
w:Police Service of Northern Ireland

(law enforcement, Northern Ireland) Initialism of Police Service of Northern Ireland, created in 2001 as a successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).


embezzlement

(law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.

اِخْتِلَاس

the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner


airship

From air + ship.
* (jocular British sense): is in imitation of worship "form of address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to Colonel Blimp.

(US, law enforcement, aviation) A police air unit, a police helicopter.


duffer

Cognate with duff, which see (origin is uncertain).

(archaic) Anything substandard, such as a counterfeit or a defective instance.

Judy was an associate (‘stud’) of a Whitefella cattle duffer named Brigalow Bill (aka WJJ Ward).

2004, Deborah Bird Rose, Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation, page 112:

2005 February 2, “Alleged sheep duffer charged”, in The Northern Daily Leader:

In the mid-1860s a duffer named James Harnell, who went by the nickname Narran Jim, had taken stock he′d stolen from the district around Culgoa and Narran rivers across Queensland to the Cooper.[…]An alert Bulloo Downs stockman contacted the police, and when Police Inspector Fitzgerald and eight Aboriginal troopers tracked Narran Jim and surrounded him while he was sleeping, the cattle duffer woke to find himself looking down the barrel of Fitzgerald′s revolver and seven years in jail.

The cattle duffer′s escape would have been impeded by those young ones. Calves can be unruly unless you move them carefully in the company of their mothers.

2011, Clancy Tucker, Gunnedah Hero, unnumbered page:

His book-sized Electronic Shepherd prototype is sensitive enough to hear a sheep bleating, a dog barking, a whistle or human command, or even the vehicle or mustering dogs of a potential sheep duffer.

2015 March 11, Terry Sim, “Greg’s Electronic Shepherd will hear dogs and sheep duffers coming 24/7”, in Sheep Central:

(Australia, dated) A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.


blotter

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(law enforcement) A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.

журна́л

регистра́ции приво́дов в полице́йском уча́стке


blotter

Unadapted borrowing from English blotter.


cooler

About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap.


mitch

en-verb

mitch (third-person singular simple present mitches, present participle mitching, simple past and past participle mitched)

mitches (present singular third-person)
mitching (participle present)
mitched (participle past)
mitched (past)

From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *myċċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewg- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.

cog

(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.


safecracking

The act of defeating the security mechanisms of a safe or vault to gain access to its contents.


mugu

They sent emails asking mugus to wire funds in order to claim nonexistent prizes.

2010, Sefi Atta, News from Home: Stories, page 245:

(South Africa) Alternative spelling of moegoe

It is people like you who make my hustlers in Europe call Americans mugu.

2020, Mirka Honkanen, World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA, page 240:

(Nigeria, Internet slang, derogatory) A victim of an online scam.


flic

fr-noun

flic m (plural flics, feminine fliquesse)

From earlier flique, probably a borrowing of German Flick, German criminal slang for "young man".
Alternatively, from earlier fligue, short for earlier fligman, a borrowing of German Fliege (“policeman”, literally “fly”). More at English fly.

bor

(slang, derogatory) copper, pig, rozzer; (police officer)


terrorism

en-noun

terrorism (usually uncountable, plural terrorisms)

/ˈtɛɹəɹɪzəm/

From French terrorisme, from terreur + -isme, equivalent to terror + -ism.
The word first appears in English in 1795 in reference to the Jacobin radicals of France, who ruled during the Reign of Terror.

തീവ്രവാദം (tīvravādaṁ, literally “extremism”)

In England I was proscribed for having vindicated the French Revolution, and I have suffered a rigorous imprisonment in France for having pursued a similar mode of conduct. During the reign of terrorism, I was a close prisoner for eight long months, and remained so above three months after the era of the tenth Thermidor.

1795 July 7, Thomas Paine, The Constitution Of 1795 (Speech in the French National Convention):

(historical) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty. David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is "vital to counter terrorism". Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.

2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23:

The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.

(by extension) The use of intimidation or bullying tactics.


graverobber

/ˈɡɹeɪvˌɹɒbə/

/ˈɡɹeɪvˌɹɑbɚ/

One who robs graves or tombs in order to sell the contents for profit.


collector

From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

инкасатор

person who is employed to collect payments

Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts

(historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.


воздух

ru-noun+

во́здух • (vózdux) m inan (genitive во́здуха, nominative plural *во́здухи, genitive plural *во́здухов, relational adjective возду́шный)

во́здух (canonical)
vózdux (romanization)
во́здуха (genitive)
*во́здухи (nominative plural)
*во́здухов (genitive plural)
возду́шный (adjective relational)
во́здух (nominative singular)
во́здухи (nominative plural)
во́здуха (genitive singular)
во́здухов (genitive plural)
во́здуху (dative singular)
во́здухам (dative plural)
во́здух (accusative singular)
во́здухи (accusative plural)
во́здухом (instrumental singular)
во́здухами (instrumental plural)
во́здухе (prepositional singular)
во́здухах (plural prepositional)
во́здуху (partitive singular)

→ Ingrian: vozduha

→ Karelian:

South Karelian: vozduha

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic въздоухъ (vŭzduxŭ), from Proto-Slavic *vъzduxъ.

bor+

во́здухъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


larceny

en-noun

larceny (countable and uncountable, plural larcenies)

Coined in Middle English (as larceni) between 1425 and 1475 from Anglo-Norman larcin (“theft”), from Latin latrocinium (“robbery”), from latro (“robber, mercenary”), from Ancient Greek λάτρον (látron, “pay, hire”).

der

“Why are you walking around,” inquired Oedipa, “with your eyes closed, Metzger?” “Larceny,” Metzger said, “maybe they'll need a lawyer.”

1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 37:

He was prudent enough not to admit he was earning money, which went down well with you, for you knew already he was working “black,” as the Germans call it — meaning illegally, and at night. Shrewd chap, you thought; resourceful; not above a bit of larceny.

(law, uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.

кражба

law: unlawful taking of personal property


fraudster

2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail
With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats.

CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.

2020 January 29, “Woman jailed for conning her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed”, in CPS Mersey-Cheshire, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 2020-01-30:

Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.

2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25:

a person who practices fraud; a swindler.

pathological liar

not to be confused; differing neuropsychological mechanisms


bombing

en-noun

bombing (countable and uncountable, plural bombings)

The action of dropping bombs from the air.


bombing

bombinga (definite singular)
bombingen (definite singular)
bombinger (indefinite plural)
bombingene (definite plural)


bombing

bombinga (definite singular)
bombingar (indefinite plural)
bombingane (definite plural)


swindler

But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him.

1908, The Scrap Book: Second Section, volume V, page 637:

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

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

A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.


defraud

en-verb

defraud (third-person singular simple present defrauds, present participle defrauding, simple past and past participle defrauded)

defrauds (present singular third-person)
defrauding (participle present)
defrauded (participle past)
defrauded (past)

From Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from de- + frauder.

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

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

(transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.