crim

Shortening.

• IPA^(key): /kɹɪm/, [kʰɹ̠̊ɪm]

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

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.

• crim. con.

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

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

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

crim m (plural crims)

1. violent crime

   Synonym: (non-violent crime) delicte

• crim de guerra
• crim passional

• criminal
• criminós

• “crim”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

crim

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