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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question;

2. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.;
- Example: "he kept finding excuses to stay"
- Example: "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"
- Example: "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
[syn: excuse, alibi, exculpation, self-justification]


VERB (1)

1. exonerate by means of an alibi; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

alibi
    n 1: (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show
         that he or she could not have committed the crime in
         question
    2: 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" [syn: excuse, alibi,
       exculpation, self-justification]
    v 1: exonerate by means of an alibi