whodunit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++who·dun·it, whodunnit /ˌhuːˈdʌnɪt/ noun [countable] informal AMFALa book, film etc about a murder case, in which you do not find out who killed the person until the end 悬疑破案[侦探]故事[小说，电影]
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whodunit• It can be a considerable pleasure to the writer engaged in creating the now often somewhat despised simple whodunit.• He garbage-dispersed the whodunit concepts because it was always this monster woman behind the scheme to remainder the hero.• The whodunit tug is, of course, replaced by the where-did-he-go-wrong tug.• We all know the answer to this whodunit.• Unfortunately, it soon degenerates into an unconvincing whodunit.Origin whodunit (1900-2000) who done it? “who did it?”who·dun·it nounChineseSyllable
murder film case, about a book, a Corpus etc
whodunit
who‧dun‧it
, whodunnit /ˌhuːˈdʌnət, ˌhuːˈdʌnɪt/ noun [countable] informal
who‧dun‧it
, whodunnit /ˌhuːˈdʌnət, ˌhuːˈdʌnɪt/ noun [countable] informal Date: 1900-2000
Origin: who done it? 'who did it?'
a book, film etc about a murder case, in which you do not find out who killed the person until the end
Origin: who done it? 'who did it?'