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Costa del Crime

Costa del Crime proper noun: spain, especially the Costa del Sol and other coastal resorts, as a place where British criminals escape to.

Proper noun

Costa del Crime

  1. (UK, informal) Spain, especially the Costa del Sol and other coastal resorts, as a place where British criminals escape to.
    • His Krugerrand adventure had resulted in a British warrant for his arrest and obliged him to go into exile on Spain's notorious Costa del Crime.1991, Andrew Jennings, Paul Lashmar, Vyv Simson, Scotland Yard's Cocaine Connection, Random House (UK)
    • The Costa del Crime setting is presumably a conscious echo of Stephen Frears's The Hit.2001, New Statesman

Origin of Costa del Crime

From Blend of Costa del Sol + crime.

Questions about Costa del Crime

What does Costa del Crime mean?
Costa del Crime means spain, especially the Costa del Sol and other coastal resorts, as a place where British criminals escape to.
What part of speech is Costa del Crime?
Costa del Crime is a proper noun.

Words near Costa del Crime in the dictionary

  1. cost-wise
  2. costa
  3. Costa Blanca
  4. Costa Brava
  5. Costa Daurada
  6. Costa del Crime
  7. Costa del Sol
  8. Costa hummingbird
  9. Costa Mesa
  10. Costa Rica
  11. Costa Rican

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