perp
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɝp/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Etymology 1Edit
Clipping of perpetrator.
NounEdit
perp (plural perps)
- (slang, law enforcement) Perpetrator.
- "We have the perp in custody," the policeman said.
- 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 6:
- Got himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp. Slid it right through the fabric of the perp’s shirt, gliding the flat of the blade along the base of his neck, and pinned him to a warped and bubbled expanse of vinyl siding on the wall of the house that the perp was trying to break into.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
perpetrator
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Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
perp
- (architecture) Clipping of perpendicular.
- a perp window
Further readingEdit
- Jonathon Green (2023), “perp n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Clipping of perpétuité.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
perp f (plural perps)