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Answer for the clue "Record holder? ", 5 letters:
felon
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Word definitions for felon in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "one who deceives or commits treason; one who is wicked or evil; evil-doer," used of Lucifer and Herod, from Old French felon "evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, oath-breaker, the Devil" (9c.), from Medieval Latin fellonem (nominative fello ) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A person who has committed a felony. 2 (context legal English) A person who has been trial and conviction of a felony. Etymology 2 n. (context medicine English) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.
Usage examples of felon.
Extensive research by the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI academy and in-depth interviews with incarcerated felons who have committed such crimes have provided a vast body of knowledge of common elements, that link crime scene dynamics to specific criminal personality patterns.
Bunter, who had slipped quickly down from the steps, stood, chain in hand, as though ready to put the gyves on a felon when he heard the word.
The moment we were on the road, I told him that I was going to part company, because I was afraid of being sent as a felon to the galleys if I continued my journey with him.
November balloting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered local elections supervisors to purge 57,700 voters from registries on grounds they were felons not entitled to vote in Florida.
No eavesdropper could have sworn that Art Bonner was speaking to the soon-to-be-notorious felon, Anthony Rand.
There was apparently no crime Mark Messinger was incapable of committing-the well-rounded felon with a major in murder and minors in armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
To discourage him from lashing out at me, I hired a large and scarily violent felon by the name of Rudy Wismer to watch my back in the yard, at meals, and on the block, paying for his services with a supply of the X-rated Japanese comics that were his sexual candy.
Once the wife of a man with a high place in the world, worldlings will be too wise to wound her by telling her that her grandfather was an unconvicted felon.
He is an unindicted and unconvicted felon as well as a citizen and a taxpayer.
Standing here with his guilty, yet unconvicted, felon felt somehow appropriate.
From mid-November through the New Year we captured a total of eleven hard felons, eighteen traffic warrantees and three parole and probation absconders.
Vail, who was getting a bit of a belly on him now that his days were spent largely riding a chair instead of being out ahorseback in active pursuit of wanted felons, paced the length of the room a few times in silence before taking his own much more comfortable seat at the desk.
He felt a fool: he had thought Amri innocent, and she was simply a felon who had been trapped too many times.
Gropp was on greased rails to spend his declining years for Brutality While Under Color of Service -- a serious offense-- in a maxi-galleria stuffed chockablock with felons whose spiritual brethren he had maimed, crushed, debased, blinded, butchered, and killed.
The Ducks were a loosely organized gang of felons who had tickets-of-leave from the English penal colony in Australia.