Thursday, October 6, 2022

in flagrante delicto

 

    in flagrante delicto (not comparable)

    1. In the act of committing a misdeed.

  1. While performing sexual activity. 

Borrowed from Medieval Latin in flagrante delicto (literally “while the crime is blazing”), from in + flāgrō (“burn”) + dēlictō, form of dēlictum (“crime, misdeed”).

 

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