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post-crime

post-crime is the alternative form of postcrime.

Meaning of postcrime

Adjective

postcrime (not comparable)

  1. After a crime.
    • These men may seek out television, radio, and newspaper reports of the crime, they may save newspaper clippings, and they may even keep a written diary about the postcrime events.1995, Robert K. Ressler, Ann Wolbert Burgess, John E. Douglas, Sexual homicide: patterns and motives, page 65

Questions about post-crime

What is post-crime the alternative form of?
Post-crime is the alternative form of postcrime.

Words near post-crime in the dictionary

  1. post-COVID-19 condition
  2. post-COVID-19 syndrome
  3. post-creole
  4. post-creole continua
  5. post-creole continuum
  6. post-crime
  7. post-crystallisation
  8. post-crystallization
  9. post-Cubist
  10. post-Cubists
  11. post-date

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