"howdunit" meaning in English

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      "form": "howdunits",
      "tags": [
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, Ellery Queen, In the Queens' Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook, page 72",
          "text": "After half a century, the whodunit was joined by the howdunit, in which the emphasis swung from the identity of the murderer to the method by which the murder was committed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so."
      ],
      "id": "en-howdunit-en-noun-i7C0EhMM",
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        [
          "detective",
          "detective"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ],
        [
          "focus",
          "focus"
        ],
        [
          "committed",
          "commit"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "whodunit"
        },
        {
          "word": "whydunit"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "howdunnit"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "howdunit"
}

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    {
      "form": "howdunits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "howdunit (plural howdunits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "whodunit"
    },
    {
      "word": "whydunit"
    }
  ],
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          "ref": "1969, Ellery Queen, In the Queens' Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook, page 72",
          "text": "After half a century, the whodunit was joined by the howdunit, in which the emphasis swung from the identity of the murderer to the method by which the murder was committed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so."
      ],
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          "detective",
          "detective"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ],
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          "focus",
          "focus"
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        [
          "committed",
          "commit"
        ]
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "howdunnit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "howdunit"
}