crim

See also: Crim and Crim.

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

crim (plural crims)

1. (UK, Australia, informal) A criminal.
   • 2012, Ian McTavish, A Prisoner's Wisdom: Transcending the Ego, page 128:

     We were the happiest, cheeriest bunch of crims in the whole prison.

   • 2018, “Bitter Pill”, in Wentworth:

     Are the crims running Wentworth? Woman found murdered in Wentworth Correctional Centre.

Related terms

• crim. con.

Anagrams

• CMIR, MCRI, MICR, Micr., RMIC, micr-

Catalan

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkɾim]
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

crim m (plural crims)

1. violent crime

   Synonym: (non-violent crime) delicte

Derived terms

• crim de guerra
• crim passional

Related terms

• criminal
• criminós

Further reading

• “crim” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Verb

crim

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of crer