Definition of perp
:a perpetrator especially of a crime
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When Ryan Gosling’s unnamed driver is tailed by cops while acting as a perp’s getaway driver, Chromatics season the ambient sounds with only a light electro pulse, like a heartbeat quickening.
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The perp’s car door knocked Jim over, bouncing his head off the concrete parking lot.
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As soon as the bomb goes off, Detective Stride, his partner, Maggie Bei, and FBI agents are looking for the perp.
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Grace’s style, on the other hand, is hyper-focused perp-hunting on behalf of the victim.
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Grace’s style, on the other hand, is hyper-focused perp-hunting on behalf of the victim.
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A few weeks later, a dozen or so tech leaders did the perp walk through Trump Tower to parley with Trump, his children, aides, and a beaming Peter Thiel.
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First Known Use of perp
1968
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