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wheredunit

wheredunit noun: a type of detective story in which significant focus is placed on the location in which the crime was committed.

Noun

wheredunit (plural wheredunits)

  1. A type of detective story in which significant focus is placed on the location in which the crime was committed.
    • "The Chaser" is less whodunit than wheredunit, perversely withholding the location of Young-min's home from everyone but the viewer, who gets to know Seoul's Mangwon district quite intimately as Jung-ho, his bumbling sidekick Meathead (Koo Bon-woong) and other cops run around it in infuriating...2008 May 17, Justin Chang, “The Chaser”, in Variety

Forms of wheredunit

pluralwheredunits
alternative formwheredunnit

Questions about wheredunit

What does wheredunit mean?
Wheredunit means a type of detective story in which significant focus is placed on the location in which the crime was committed.
What part of speech is wheredunit?
Wheredunit is a noun.
What is the plural of wheredunit?
The plural of wheredunit is wheredunits.

Words near wheredunit in the dictionary

  1. wherebehind
  2. wherebelow
  3. wherebetween
  4. whereby
  5. wheredja
  6. wheredunit
  7. wheredunits
  8. wheredunnit
  9. wheredunnits
  10. wheree'er
  11. whereever

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