1 [U] criminal activities that involve sex or drugs:
plain-clothes detectives from the vice squad
2 [U,C] evil or immoral behaviour; an evil or immoral quality in sb's character:
The film ended most satisfactorily: vice punished and virtue rewarded. * Greed is a terrible vice. * (humorous) Cigarettes are my only vice.
3 (BrE) (AmE vise) [C] a tool with two metal blocks that can be moved together by turning a screw. The vice is used to hold an object firmly while work is done on it:
He held my arm in a vice-like (= very firm) grip.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for vice is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is vice a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, vice is tagged as noun.
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