Citations:crimmie

English citations of crimmie

Alternative form of crimie (“fellow gang member”)

• 2011, Marvin Wines, A warrior's road: the life of an independent criminal (→ISBN), page 156:

  I knew I was going to the hole the minute I heard some bully's trying to punk someone when they're the punks themselves. So lets look on the bright side. And that was when I got my yard crimmie as a cellie.

criminal record; a (usually formal, legal) list of crimes a person is alleged to have committed

• 1983, United States Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Armed Robbery and Burglary Prevention Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 6386 ... September 23, 1982:

  [...] factually, too, that when you deal with these career criminals and look at the criminal records, as I have on so many, once a person is in a career criminal category they have convictions in New York State, in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in California, and they are multicolored "crimmies," or criminal records.

novel about crime

• 2016, John Tracy Greene, The Fruits of Madness: Perspectives on the Prophetic Movements in Three Traditions (→ISBN), page 30:

  [...] the prophetic yarns concerning them were probably as popular and well-loved in their day as are today's 'crimmies'/mysteries from Belgium (Commissar [Jules] Maigret), France (Blood of the Vine, Dolmen), [etc...]

Alternative form of crimony

• 2009, Regan Taylor, The Spell [McKenna Crime Series] (→ISBN), page 118:

  Yeah, so why did she get that squiggly feeling in her tummy just because of his voice? Crimmies!