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What A Crook May Cop Crossword Clue

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99%4Exact Match!
noun

• a humble request for help from someone in authority

• (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)

• an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed

32%4Crook, in cop lingo
noun

• (law enforcement) Perpetrator.

adjective

• At or forming a right angle (to something).

• Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.

• Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.

24%11Crook of your arm
adjective

• of or relating to the region of the arm in front of the elbow

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