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postcrime

postcrime adjective: after a crime.

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

Forms of postcrime

alternative formpost-crime

Origin of postcrime

From post- + crime.

Questions about postcrime

What does postcrime mean?
Postcrime means after a crime.
What part of speech is postcrime?
Postcrime is an adjective.

Words near postcrime in the dictionary

  1. postcranium
  2. postcrash
  3. postcreole
  4. postcreoles
  5. postcricoid
  6. postcrime
  7. postcrisis
  8. postcristid
  9. postcristids
  10. postcritical
  11. postcritically

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