police procedural
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes.
Example Sentences
- "But sometimes, what a devoted crime reader wants isn’t anything too fancy. Sometimes, what we want is a good, solid police procedural, preferably set somewhere interesting, preferably with a troubled, renegade investigator who refuses to listen when their boss tells them to leave an avenue of investigation alone."
- "Seeming “real” has been the aim since the earliest police procedurals, which began a long tradition of Hollywood productions acting as a mouthpiece for police departments."