Hypertext Webster Gateway: "alibi"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Alibi \Al"i*bi\, n. [L., elsewhere, at another place. See
{Alias}.] (Law)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
alibi
n 1: (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that
he or she could not have committed the crime in question
2: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep
a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every
day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his
transparent self-justification was unacceptable" [syn: {excuse},
{self-justification}]
v : exonerate by means of an alibi
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