alibi : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: alibi	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for alibi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alibi n (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question 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" Synonym(s): excuse, alibi, exculpation, self-justification v exonerate by means of an 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.