perp
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8.6
- noun
- /pɜrp/
- Slang
:
sospechoso
- Meanwhile, the two perps who shot me are still out there.
- victim and perp
I do hope when he does have his perp walk, I do hope they play that brass band.
- I do hope when he does have his perp walk, I do hope they play that brass band.
- Like, could you say who the perp was?
- When one of the teens marched up and started to nae nae at the officer, the officer didn't bust a perp.
- So then they wanted me to go downtown to the precinct, in the police precinct, and they wanted to get video of what's called a perp walk.
- He says he left at the time, which perps always say that they don't always put themselves in the myth.
Examples
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LETAC surveillance cameras got a picture of the perp as he left the building.
Fiction book (1996) -
The detectives quickly identified the perp from the security footage.
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You never knew when a perp might leave his vehicle behind.
Fiction book (1999) -
The video surveillance cameras... caught a picture of the perp as he left the building.
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The teen had been murdered, and he wanted the perp put away for good.
Fiction book (1995) -
You know, I saw in the police record that this perp also had a 1-year-old son.
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Until we can clear him, he's our best and only perp.
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Description of the perp matches the surveillance photographs from LETAC taken this morning.
Fiction book (1996) -
We got two perps holding up a gumball machine on 5th Street.
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I deduced the milkman as the probable perp because of the note Figglesworth had found.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
161
6.8
A person who commits a crime or other serious wrong
How Guilty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Perp is police slang and a short form of perpetrator, meaning 'person who did the crime'. That is why news reports and officers often call a suspect the 'perp'.