criminal offense

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criminal offense - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"crime, criminal offence, law-breaking, offense, offenceevildoing, transgression - the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"barratry - the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrelscapital offense - a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriatecybercrime - crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programsfelony - a serious crime (such as murder or arson)forgery - criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraudfraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another personHad crime - (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran; "Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery"highjack, hijack - seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destinationmayhem - the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another personinfraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation, infringement - a crime less serious than a felonyperpetration, committal, commission - the act of committing a crimeattempt, attack - the act of attacking; "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life"Tazir crime - (Islam) minor crimes committed by Muslims; crimes that are not mentioned in the Koran so judges are free to punish the offender in any appropriate way; "in some Islamic nations Tazir crimes are set by legislation"regulatory offence, regulatory offense, statutory offence, statutory offense - crimes created by statutes and not by common lawthuggery - violent or brutal acts as of thugshigh treason, lese majesty, treason - a crime that undermines the offender's governmentvice crime - a vice that is illegalvictimless crime - an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims; "he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime"war crime - a crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of warcriminal law - the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishmentabduct, kidnap, nobble, snatch - take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"shanghai, impress - take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"commandeer, highjack, hijack, pirate - take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami"skyjack - subject an aircraft to air piracy; "the plane was skyjacked to Uzbekistan"carjack - take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it; "My car was carjacked last night!"extort - obtain through intimidationblackmail - obtain through threatsscalp - sell illegally, as on the black marketbootleg - sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol; "They were bootlegging whiskey"black market, run - deal in illegally, such as arms or liquorfob off, foist off, palm off - sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceivepush - sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs); "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs"black marketeer - deal on the black marketpyramid - use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid dealransom, redeem - exchange or buy back for money; under threattraffic - deal illegally; "traffic drugs"rustle, lift - take illegally; "rustle cattle"shoplift - steal in a storestick up, hold up - rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threatmug - rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence; "I was mugged in the streets of New York last night"pirate - copy illegally; of published materialplagiarise, plagiarize, lift - take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual propertycrib - take unauthorized (intellectual material)bribe, grease one's palms, buy, corrupt - make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"rake off - take money from an illegal transactionbuy off, pay off - pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor