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n. Law A form of defense whereby a defendant attempts to prove that he or she was elsewhere when the crime in question was committed.

n. Law The fact of having been elsewhere when a crime in question was committed.

n. Usage Problem An explanation offered to avoid blame or justify action; an excuse.

verb-intransitive. To make an excuse for oneself.

v. To make an excuse for (another).

n. The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi

v. to provide an alibi for

v. to provide an excuse for

n. The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed

In law, elsewhere; at another place.

n. In law, a plea of having been elsewhere at the time an offense is alleged to have been committed.

n. The fact or state of having been elsewhere at the time specified: as, he attempted to prove an alibi.

v. exonerate by means of an alibi

n. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question

n. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

"And you know, when we ` re talking about his story, that ` s one of the things that ` s really captured, I think, the attention of people around here is it ` s so absurd that somebody ` s-- if you want to use the term alibi, would be that they left their pregnant wife by the side of the road."

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