"perfect crime" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: perfect crimes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} perfect crime (plural perfect crimes)
  1. (colloquial) A crime that is undetected, unattributed to a perpetrator, or otherwise unsolved. Tags: colloquial Translations (undetected crime): crim perfecte [masculine] (Catalan), perfekt forbrydelse [common-gender] (Danish), crimen perfecto [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-perfect_crime-en-noun-vXhDNwJ9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of 'undetected crime': 62 38
  2. (colloquial) A crime that is unsolved and seemingly unsolvable. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-perfect_crime-en-noun-5pnKgEa7

Inflected forms

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