criming

Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)

1. (UK, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
   • Nevertheless, in the course of a few days he is again intoxicated, creates disturbance in his quarters, is confined by his sergeant, crimed, and brought before the commanding officer […]1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is, page 298
2. (nonce-word) To commit crime.
   • If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.1987, Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side, →ISBN, page 61

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