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say it: AL-uh-bahy
alibi is a noun and verb meaning "(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question". It carries 3 recorded senses.
(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
law
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”
exonerate by means of an alibi
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alibi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.