Cabot Cove syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The situation where, in order to create storylines for a detective drama, the protagonist encounters far more murders than is plausible.

Word forms

Cabot Cove syndrome

Etymology

Named from the fictional setting of the long-running US television series Murder, She Wrote.

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