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no human involved

no human involved phrase: describing crimes committed against people deemed undesirable or subhuman, e.g., those with criminal records, sex workers, drug addicts, transients, or people of color.

Phrase

no human involved

  1. (derogatory, slang) Describing crimes committed against people deemed undesirable or subhuman, e.g., those with criminal records, sex workers, drug addicts, transients, or people of color.
    • He was not working with what the police facetiously call a no-humans-involved case, where everyone involved whether as witness or suspect already has a substantial criminal record.2003, John Lescroart, chapter 37, in The Oath
    • Cops closed them all with a code: NHI. The unsolved crimes had been back-burnered until a reporter revealed that the letters stamped on the police files were shorthand for No Human Involved.2008, Linda Fairstein, Killer Heat, page 191
    Synonyms:
    NHI

Examples of no human involved in a sentence

  • I remembered Ed's offensive remark—“No human involved in that first murder anyway”—and tried to keep the disdain off my face.2010, Martha C. Lawrence, Pisces Rising, page 33:
  • “NHI-No Human Involved,” the cops used to say.2015, Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, One World/Ballantine, →ISBN, page 6:

Synonyms of no human involved

Questions about no human involved

What does no human involved mean?
No human involved means describing crimes committed against people deemed undesirable or subhuman, e.g., those with criminal records, sex workers, drug addicts, transients, or people of color.
How do you use no human involved in a sentence?
I remembered Ed's offensive remark—“No human involved in that first murder anyway”—and tried to keep the disdain off my face.
What part of speech is no human involved?
No human involved is a phrase.

Words near no human involved in the dictionary

  1. no horse in that race
  2. no horse in this race
  3. no horse run
  4. no host bar
  5. no host bars
  6. no human involved
  7. no hymen, no diamond
  8. no idea
  9. no jab, no play
  10. no Jews, no news
  11. no johns

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