Police & Crimes 🚨

 0    30 tarjetas    mareklipinski5
descargar mp3 imprimir jugar test de práctica
 
término American English definición American English
When a police operation ... a number of people or things, they catch those people or find those things.
empezar lección
net
The raids also netted weapons including knives.
If someone ..., they steal things, usually small cheap things.
empezar lección
pilfer
When food stores close, they go to work, pilfering food for resale on the black market.
If something violent and cruel is done in..., it is done deliberately and in an unemotional way.
empezar lección
in cold blood
The crime had been committed in cold blood.
If you say that someone is......, you mean that they steal things.
empezar lección
light-fingered
police officer in informal way
empezar lección
cop 🇺🇸 / copper 🇬🇧/ billy
If someone ..., they go onto someone else's land without their permission
empezar lección
trespass
They were trespassing on private property
to fire a gun, or to fire a shot from a gun
formal
empezar lección
discharge
The police stated that some 50 rounds had been discharged.
to steal something
empezar lección
thieve
thieve
If someone ... a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another.
empezar lección
hijack
If someone commits a ..., they enter a building by force and steal things... is the act of doing this.
empezar lección
burglary
A ... is someone who has done something illegal or behaved badly.
empezar lección
miscreant
To pass through the traffic light when the red light is illuminated.
empezar lección
run a red light
A police car that has no markings to distinguish it from a civilian car
empezar lección
unmarked police car
Someone who enters a place illegally and usually violently, and steals from it:
empezar lección
raider
Someone who is on... is willing or seeking to receiving illegal income such as bribes.
empezar lección
be on the take
Nobody is accusing me of being on the take from the Japanese
... is blood from a wound that has become thick.
empezar lección
gore
A ... is someone who gets clients for prostitutes and takes a large part of the money the prostitutes earn.
empezar lección
ponce/ pimp/ player (slang) / mack (slang)
Instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action).
empezar lección
foment something
bez +to
He said he was not guilty of fomenting rebellion
When a police officer ... someone, he or she officially records their name and the offence that they may be charged with.
empezar lección
book
Tom was booked for speeding yesterday.
deliberate and unprovoked behaviour
(of something bad, such as damage, cruelty, waste)
empezar lección
wanton
entering a building or room by using force to open a door or window
empezar lección
forcible entry
The door showed signs of forcible entry
a situation when a car is parked with some part of it resting on a sidewalk, and the remaining part - on a road/driveway or when car pull over from the road and go on a pavement (illegal)
empezar lección
mount the pavement
A car came out of the fog, mounted the pavement and crashed into them.
to solve, or advance towards a solution of, an investigation or mystery, typically by finding new evidence.
idiom
empezar lección
crack the case
a large single building or part of a complex subdivided into separate prison cells
empezar lección
cellblock
a person who assists with the plotting or actual committing of a criminal act.
empezar lección
partner in crime
A person who make a version of something that is not genuine but has been made to look genuine in order to deceive people.
empezar lección
counterfeiter
To ... someone means to follow close behind them and watch where they go and what they do.
informal
empezar lección
tail
Officers had tailed the gang from London during a major undercover inquiry.
... police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
also e. g. soldiers
empezar lección
plain-clothes
He was arrested by plain-clothes detectives as he walked through the customs hall
A police officer on the ... is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
idiom
empezar lección
be on the beat
The officer on the beat picks up information; hears cries for help; makes people feel safe
A ... is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
empezar lección
bloodstain

Debes iniciar sesión para poder comentar.