suçüstü
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From suç (“crime”) + üst (“top, upper”) + -ü (possessive suffix), literally “on (the) crime”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suçüstü (definite accusative suçüstünü, plural suçüstüler)
- (law) An act of catching someone red-handed.
- Synonyms: (dated) cürmümeşhut, (dated) meşhut suç
Adverb
[edit]suçüstü
- In the act of wrongdoing, red-handed.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “suçüstü”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “suçüstü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4345