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frame
noun- the general circumstance, especially of a crime UK, 1970
Conventionally a frame fits the picture; figuratively applied. - Scotland Yard works on informers, and if you go in the frame for something, you get picked up and fitted up[.] — The Listener, 8 March 1979
- Vince wanted to be top do now that Gavin was out of the frame. — Danny King, The Bank Robber Diaries, p. 63, 2002
- the body US, 1052
- Some poontang to cradle my lonesome frame. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 59, 1952
- I left the tavern, returned to the dormitory, and put my miserable frame into the sack. — Max Shulman, Guided Tour of Campus Humor, p. 60, 1955
▶ in the frame
under suspicion of involvement in a crime that is being investigated UK- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 65, 1996
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