Meanings
- abbreviationellipsisnot comparableEllipsis of in flagrante delicto.
“Great! A guy getting off a night shift who hasn't been laid in years finds his wife in flagrante with some hamburger-faced guy who hightails it out the front door in his underwear. We're walking into a hornet's nest, Jackson.”
2004, Rex Pickett, Sideways, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 2922 more examples
He is believed to be a patron of certain brothels and élite “home delivery” services specializing in celebrity look-alikes. On one occasion he was actually caught in flagrante with a counterfeit Vina in the back of a super-stretch, but when the sharp-eyed cop who saw the hooker responding to a signal and entering the limo understood what was going on, […]
1999, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, New York: Henry Holt, page 495I saw one show in which a man was frustrated with his obese wife; she said she'd been on a diet, but she hadn't lost a pound, had in fact gained weight, and one day he left the house, got to the station, then realised he'd forgotten his wallet, and walked back to the house, and let himself in, and there she was, sitting at the kitchen table, in flagrante. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Large bucket. Large fries.
2005, William Leith, The Hungry Years, page 51
Translations
Spanish in fraganti, infraganti
- in fragantiadverb
- infragantiadverb
- en flagranteadverb
- en fraganteadverb
- en flagranciaadverb
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in flagrante. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20flagrante
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