"ODC" meaning in English

See ODC in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: ODCs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ODC (plural ODCs)
  1. (Ireland, law enforcement, informal) Initialism of ordinary decent criminal. (a prisoner not associated with terrorism) Tags: Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, informal, initialism Alternative form of: ordinary decent criminal (extra: a prisoner not associated with terrorism) Categories (topical): Crime, Law enforcement

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for ODC meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ODCs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ODC (plural ODCs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a prisoner not associated with terrorism",
          "word": "ordinary decent criminal"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Crime",
          "orig": "en:Crime",
          "parents": [
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Law",
            "All topics",
            "Justice",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law enforcement",
          "orig": "en:Law enforcement",
          "parents": [
            "Crime prevention",
            "Emergency services",
            "Law",
            "Crime",
            "Public safety",
            "Justice",
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Public administration",
            "Security",
            "All topics",
            "Government",
            "Fundamental",
            "Politics"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of ordinary decent criminal. (a prisoner not associated with terrorism)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ODC-en-noun-RDJhZ24t",
      "links": [
        [
          "law enforcement",
          "law enforcement"
        ],
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary#English"
        ],
        [
          "decent",
          "decent#English"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, law enforcement, informal) Initialism of ordinary decent criminal. (a prisoner not associated with terrorism)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "informal",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "law-enforcement"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ODC"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ODCs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ODC (plural ODCs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a prisoner not associated with terrorism",
          "word": "ordinary decent criminal"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English informal terms",
        "English initialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English three-letter abbreviations",
        "Irish English",
        "en:Crime",
        "en:Law enforcement"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of ordinary decent criminal. (a prisoner not associated with terrorism)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law enforcement",
          "law enforcement"
        ],
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary#English"
        ],
        [
          "decent",
          "decent#English"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, law enforcement, informal) Initialism of ordinary decent criminal. (a prisoner not associated with terrorism)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "informal",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "law-enforcement"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ODC"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.