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  • noun Alternative spelling of crimebuster.

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Examples

  • He has made a name for himself as a crime-buster, a millionaire lobbyist, a husband of the year who let his last wife know he would be divorcing her on TV, a terrorist fighter, a volunteer fireman.

    Marvin Kitman: 31 Skidoo 2008

  • Rudy was the man who became a famous crime-buster, a millionaire, and husband of the year, actually several years with his several wives.

    Marvin Kitman: Say It Ain't So, Rudy 2008

  • The bulletproof, invincible but mysteriously angry Hancock saves the life of idealistic PR man Ray Embry (Jason Bateman), who vows to return the favor by giving the unpopular crime-buster an image makeover.

    The Wounded Superhero 2008

  • (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER (voice-over): America's most notorious monster, America's best-known crime-buster -- John Walsh lost his son, Adam.

    CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2007 2007

  • The crime-buster and former mayor of New York has set up an exploratory committee.

    PITTER-PATTERING POLITICAL FEET News from Mad Plato 2006

  • The crime-buster and former mayor of New York has set up an exploratory committee.

    Archive 2006-11-01 News from Mad Plato 2006

  • Sky Ape: All the Heroes:When the megalomaniacal genius known only as MISTER DOCTOR POWERFUL orchestrates a global prison break, freeing the world's most vile and, in some cases, inept super-villains, Sky Ape and his crew must enlist the aid of all the heroes--every last, second-string crime-buster the universe has ever forgotten, including The Swimsuit Bastards, Caibo the Puerto-Rican Snowman and Hall & Oates--to set things right again.

    Archive 2005-08-01 David S. Carter 2005

  • Sky Ape: All the Heroes:When the megalomaniacal genius known only as MISTER DOCTOR POWERFUL orchestrates a global prison break, freeing the world's most vile and, in some cases, inept super-villains, Sky Ape and his crew must enlist the aid of all the heroes--every last, second-string crime-buster the universe has ever forgotten, including The Swimsuit Bastards, Caibo the Puerto-Rican Snowman and Hall & Oates--to set things right again.

    FGNW Day 7: Epileptic David S. Carter 2005

  • South Africans - submerged in high-crime society with an overwhelmed police force - are obsessed with self-defence, patrolling their farms and suburbs, paying into a booming private security industry and even joining militant crime-buster groups such as Mapogo, which has 35,000 members.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • And though he has had a variety of roles since then, he said he had never played a crime-buster before.

    unknown title 2011

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