catch a body

catch a body (third-person singular simple present catches a body, present participle catching a body, simple past and past participle caught a body)

catches a body (present singular third-person)
catching a body (participle present)
caught a body (participle past)
caught a body (past)

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Niggas be runnin' through the block shootin'
Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston

1994, Nas (lyrics and music), “N.Y. State of Mind”, in Illmatic:

Mo' money, mo' murder, mo' homicide
You catch that body, nigga? Better have that alibi
You never know, it might just be your time, you take your ride
To them pearly white gates, watch that suicide

1995, AZ featuring Nas (lyrics and music), “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Murder (Homicide)”, in Doe or Die:

(slang, idiomatic, intransitive) to kill, to murder


evidence tampering

en-noun

evidence tampering (plural evidence tamperings)

(crime) The act of concealing, falsifying, or destroying evidence with the intent to interfere with an investigation.

inquinamento delle prove

act of manipulating evidence to interfere with an investigation


police escort

(law enforcement) A service offered by police and law enforcement to assist in transporting important individuals or resources.


party van

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Attested 2006 in a comic posted on 4chan: FBI agents trick Anonymous into opening his door by claiming they are the “4chan party van”.

As ban puts it, "This is our razor-thin disclaimer which protects us in real-life" from what /b/tards refer to as "a ride in the FBI party van."

2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired:

Who needs the FBI party van when you can just order CALEA take out?

2014 September 5, Sean Gallagher, “When NSA and FBI call for surveillance takeout, these companies deliver”, in Ars Technica:

(Internet slang, humorous) An FBI or other law enforcement van, especially if carrying agents coming to arrest someone for cybercrime.


Avada Kedavra

en-verb

Avada Kedavra (third-person singular simple present Avada Kedavras, present participle Avada Kedavra-ing, simple past and past participle Avada Kedavra'd or Avada Kedavraed)

Avada Kedavras (present singular third-person)
Avada Kedavra-ing (participle present)
Avada Kedavra'd (participle past)
Avada Kedavra'd (past)
Avada Kedavraed (participle past)
Avada Kedavraed (past)

Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Killing Curse

Verbalization of the incantation of the Killing Curse in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Rowling has stated that it is from Aramaic עַבְדָא כְּדַבְרָא (avda kedavra, literally “what was said has been done”), calling it “the original of abracadabra, which means ‘let the thing be destroyed’”; compare Hebrew עַבְרָא כְּדַבְרָא (avra kedavra, literally “what was said has come to pass”). In fact, a relationship of these terms with abracadabra (of unknown origin) has been suggested, but there is little supporting evidence.

bor

עַבְדָא כְּדַבְרָא

cog

עַבְרָא כְּדַבְרָא

There isn’t much point in trying to attack this, the final installment in the epic saga of Harry Potter; everyone in the civilized world has already seen it, and all of the die-hard HP fans won’t accept even the slightest criticism of the movies, save for the degree to which they differ from the books. However, at the time of this writing, HP-fever has died down and I can now give this movie a fair examination, free from the scornful “avada kedavra-ing” of fanboys and fangirls.

2011 August 16, Kevin Kryah, “Harry ends on a high note”, in Samantha Strong, editor, Cub Reporter, volume 63, number 1, Indianapolis, Ind.: Lawrence Central High School, page 13, column 1:

If Harry Potter was a vicious hooligan, we’d quite happily accept Voldermort^([sic]) Avada-Kedavra-ing him.

2012, Charlie Wilson, A Seriously Useful Author’s Guide to Writing a Marketable Book, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 136:

If I was Harry Potter, I would have Avada Kedavraed your ass straight into hell.

2013, J.C. Daniels [pseudonym; Shiloh Walker], chapter 10, in Broken Blade (Colbana Files), →ISBN, part 1 (Broken):

There are challenges — like Ravenclaw egos, Voldemort’s avada kedavra-ing, the Malfoys’ bullying, the stress of exams and the frigidity of weather which can make lecture halls seem more like igloos — but these challenges become much more manageable when undertaken alongside others with whom one identifies and empathizes.

2013 November 6, David Shuck, “The weather outside doesn’t have to be frightful”, in André Rouillard, editor, The Vanderbilt Hustler, volume 125, number 44, page 6, column 3:

“One day I walked into my classroom to find every single student snoring. The noise…I finally snapped. I waved my hand and turned them all into blue-footed bubis**.” / News traveled across campus quickly, eliciting an immediate response from both faculty and students. / “I love it!” said one professor who wished not to be named. “That’s thinking outside the box! Personally, I would have avada kedavra’d the whole lot of them. But I suppose it’s a start.”

2016 April 1, Skeeter Reeter bo Beeter [pseudonym], “Professor Rewarded for Taking Revenge on Slacking Students”, in The Wilson Bullboard, Chambersburg, Pa.: Wilson College, page 4, columns 2–3:

Voldemort remains a performer throughout the entire series, and his theatricality becomes his predictability (though he learns enough to Avada Kedavra Harry immediately in Deathly Hallows and go through the theatrics after the threat has been nullified).

2018, Irvin Khaytman, “Albus Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix”, in The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, 2nd edition, Story Spring Publishing, →ISBN:

Theme park lines occupy – or, really, are – a special place in hell, especially the ones in Central Florida, where standing under the Florida sun usually results in enough back sweat to fill a kiddie pool. One place, though, stops us from Avada Kedavra-ing ourselves – the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. With meticulous attention to detail and the Harry Potter canon, Universal engineers have created immersive waiting areas that are just as magically engaging as the ride itself.

2018 August 22–28, “Best Magical Queue”, in Jessica Bryce Young, editor, Best of Orlando 2018 (Orlando Weekly), Orlando, Fla.: Euclid Media Group, page 137:

He is standing again, pacing around the apartment lobby, scared, like some wizard is going to Avada Kedavra him into oblivion.

2019 August 28, Emily Roach, Rebecca Rahme, “Adrian”, in The Uprising, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:

Have faith in yourself, Jane. You are more dangerous than you know. / I tried to believe that. Of course, it would have been easier to believe if not for the fact I had to turn into a deer to duck out of the way of Jones pulling out a wand then firing glowing balls of hellish fire at me. / “You are not going to Avada Kedavra me, Hermione!” I shouted. / Alex engaged Visigoth in battle and it was hard to tell who was winning, since the two thousand-year-old vampire moved faster than the eye could see.

2021, C. T. Phipps, Michael Suttkus, “A Nightmare on Elk Street”, in The Bright Falls Mysteries Saga, Mystique Press, →ISBN:

(transitive, intransitive, humorous) To use the killing curse from the Harry Potter series on (someone), causing immediate death.


sex trafficking

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(law, crime, sociology) Human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.


police report

(law, law enforcement) A formal documentation of an incident that occurs and is recorded by a police officer.


kill kit

(crime, criminology) A collection of items, often including duct tape, rope, handcuffs, knives, and guns, usually kept out of sight, and used by criminals to commit a murder, or other violent act.


police record

(law, criminology) A file held by the police, containing a record of the past crimes of which someone has been suspected of or convicted.


shot-drill

(historical) A form of nonproductive penal labor in which prisoners are forced to carry cannonballs back and forth while stooped over.


police lieutenant

en-noun

police lieutenant (plural police lieutenants)

(law enforcement) A police rank in the police departments of certain nations.


police captain

(law enforcement) A high-level officer in a police department who is usually responsible for an entire district or precinct.


police sergeant

police sergeant (plural police sergeants)

(law enforcement) A rank of law enforcement who supervises officers and handles daily precinct operations.


police van

(law enforcement) A type of vehicle operated by a police force, usually employed for the transport of prisoners inside a specially adapted cell.


police jury

(US, law enforcement) The most common type of governing body for a parish in the state of Louisiana.


security police

security police (plural security police)

(law enforcement) A law enforcement agency focusing primarily on providing security and law enforcement services to a particular area or a specific property.


police squad

(law enforcement) A small squad of law enforcement officers who are trained to deal with a particular kind of crime.


police constable

police constable (plural police constables)

(law enforcement) A law enforcement officer of the lowest rank.


religious police

religious police (plural religious police)

(Islam) A police force responsible for the enforcement of religious norms and associated religious laws.


most wanted

most wanted (countable and uncountable, plural most wanteds)

(crime, law enforcement) A list of criminals and alleged criminals who are believed to be at large and are identified as a law enforcement agency's highest priority for capture.


field training officer

field training officer (plural field training officers)

(US, law enforcement) An experienced or senior member of an organization who is responsible for the training and evaluation of a junior or probationary level member.


knock-knock burglary

knock-knock burglary (plural knock-knock burglaries)

(crime) A type of burglary in which a perpetrator knocks on someone's door under false pretenses and then forcefully enters their house in order to steal property.


rotary-wing intercept

rotary-wing intercept (plural rotary-wing intercepts)

rotary-wing aircraft
rotary-wing aircraft

(law enforcement, military) An intercept performed by rotary-wing aircraft.


Chicago school

(sociology, criminology) A school of thought originating at the University of Chicago whose work was influential in the early 20th century.


show-up

Deverbal from show up. (showing of a suspect): Compare lineup.

(law enforcement) The showing of a suspect to a victim by police in the hope of identifying the suspect as the culprit.


From the facts that, under this statute, (during the commission of certain felonies):
* Producing a firearm carries a mandatory 10-year prison sentence;
* Firing a firearm carries a mandatory 20-year prison sentence;
* Hitting someone with a firearm carries a mandatory 25-year to life prison sentence.

For example, when I asked the lobbyist for the Florida Sheriffs Association about the FSA's rationale for supporting 10-20-life, he responded that offenders were "getting too much gain-time and ... it just wasn't right."

2018 February 19, Heather Schoenfeld, Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (Chicago Series in Law and Society), University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:


crime scene cleaner

crime scene cleaner (plural crime scene cleaners)

(criminology) A trained professional who cleans and sanitizes an area where a crime or an accident has occurred.


soft room

Glendale District 4 purchased toys and equipment for the "soft room" occupied by children when family violence/tragic events bring them into police headquarters.

1989, “Child Abuse Prevention”, in LACMA Physician, volume 119, number 12, Los Angeles County Medical Association, page 29:

Though he possessed no formal training in interviewing children, he had spent five years working with traumatized children and learning through trial and error how to interview them. His boss assigned him to show the Martensville rookie how to interview them too, in the Soft Room at the Saskatoon police station.

1997 November 2, Frann Harris, “The Prosecution”, in Martensville: Truth Or Justice?: The Story of the Martensville Daycare Trials, Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 37:

In deliberate contrast, the soft room was outfitted with overstuffed chairs and painted a deep blue. In addition to improving interviewees’ experiences, Hill said, the physical and psychological comfort of the soft room will help officers obtain more detailed, accurate testimonies from victims.

2015 April 22, Allison Oligschlaeger, “West Valley police open 'soft' interview room for victims of violence”, in Deseret News, →ISSN:

The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department installed the first soft room in Missouri.

2024 June 25, Amanda Alvarado, “Police department creates ‘soft’ interview room for assault survivors”, in News, WIBW:

Last month, with the help of Project Beloved, Missouri’s Kansas City Police Department remodeled a formerly stiff and uninviting room (used for both victims and suspects) into a soft interview room to solely serve victims of sexual assault. Two years ago, another police department in the Kansas City suburb of Belton used a federal grant to create a similar soft room.

2024 July 11, Jaclyn Diaz, “After a tragedy, a mother wants to soften the rooms where police interview victims”, in National, NPR:

(law enforcement) A room set up in a police station with amenities that make it easier to talk with children, trauma victims, or other vulnerable populations.


GCQ

community quarantine
community quarantine#English

(Philippines) Initialism of general community quarantine.

COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines


MGCQ

(Philippines) Initialism of modified general community quarantine.


ECQ

(Philippines) Initialism of enhanced community quarantine.


MECQ

(Philippines) Initialism of modified enhanced community quarantine.


HUR

Transliteration of Ukrainian ГУР (HUR), Holovné Upravlínnja Rózvidky.

As a result of an operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, known as HUR, in Kursk Oblast of Russia, a truck with Russian drones was destroyed, a source familiar with the matter told Ukrinform.

2024 November 29th, Olena Mukhina, “HUR operation destroys Russian truck with drones in Kursk Oblast”, in Euromaidan Press:

The Main Directorate of Intelligence [of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine].

ГУР

initialism denoting Main Directorate of Intelligence


body brokering

(criminology) The act or practice of an individual who seeks financial gain by exploiting a vulnerable person who is seeking treatment for addiction.


rehab broker

(criminology) Synonym of body broker (“a firm or an individual ho seeks financial gain by exploiting a vulnerable person who is seeking treatment for addiction”)


UCR

The UCR report says that about 77% of reported murders in 2020 were committed with a gun, up from 74% in 2019. There is no federal database of gun sales, but other independent surveys have found that gun sales have soared during the Covid-19 pandemic.

2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN:

Uniform Crime Reports
w:Uniform Crime Reports

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of Uniform Crime Reports.


NIBRS

The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.

w:National Incident-Based Reporting System

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of National Incident-Based Reporting System.


bait money

(banking, criminology) A set or roll of bills with known serial numbers that is used by a bank in order to aid the tracing of a bank robber.


cyberflasher

(computing, crime) One who commits cyberflashing.


economically motivated adulteration

economically motivated adulteration (countable and uncountable, plural economically motivated adulterations)

economically motivated adulterations (plural)

Economically motivated adulteration (EMA) of food, also known as food fraud, is the intentional adulteration of food for financial advantage.

2012 November 28, Karen Everstine, John Spink, and Shaun Kennedy, University of New Mexico:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has defined economically motivated adulteration (EMA) as the “fraudulent, intentional substitution or addition of a substance in a product for the purpose of increasing the apparent value of the product or reducing the cost of its production, i.e., for economic gain.”

2017 December 5, Food Safety Magazine, Food Safety Magazine:

Economically motivated adulteration (EMA) occurs when someone intentionally leaves out, takes out, or substitutes a valuable ingredient or part of a food.

2024 April 18, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Food and Drug Administration:

The intentional omission, removal, or substitution of ingredients in products for financial gain without public disclosure.


food fraud

food fraud (countable and uncountable, plural food frauds)

Food fraud has been conducted since ancient Greek and Roman times but is rapidly increasing due to the complex, global supply chain, pressure on suppliers to reduce prices and the possibility of large profits.

2021 October 2, Institute of Food Science & Technology, Institute of Food Science & Technology:

Food fraud is the act of purposely altering, misrepresenting, mislabeling, substituting or tampering with any food product at any point along the farm–to–table food supply chain.

2023 June 8, Food Safety Net Services, Food Safety Net Services:

Food fraud is a common type of EMA that the FDA deals with, but EMA also occurs with other products, including animal food and cosmetics.

The intentional omission, removal, or substitution of ingredients in food for financial gain without public disclosure.


enforcement authority

enforcement authority (plural enforcement authorities)

(law, law enforcement) A person or body having jurisdiction to enforce or to take action under or in respect of the relevant legal requirement.