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prime suspects

prime suspects is the plural of prime suspect.

Meaning of prime suspect

Noun

prime suspect (plural prime suspects)

  1. A person who is considered by the law enforcement agency investigating a crime to be the most likely suspect.
    • The police had found the getaway car in the field. The rain had washed most of the yellow paint off the Mini to reveal the Union Jack underneath. There was no doubt that the car was Queenie. This led the police to their prime suspect, the car’s owner, Gilbert Goodie.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Questions about prime suspects

What is prime suspects the plural of?
Prime suspects is the plural of prime suspect.

Words near prime suspects in the dictionary

  1. prime ribs
  2. prime ring
  3. prime rings
  4. prime subring
  5. prime suspect
  6. prime suspects
  7. prime the pump
  8. prime time
  9. prime triplet
  10. prime triplets
  11. prime up

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