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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
—Yamillah Hurtado, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Robinhood rolled out its own perp offering in the EU a month earlier and is probably looking for a way to bring it stateside.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Noun
And the victims in Plymouth County are the perps next door in Norfolk.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
—Yamillah Hurtado, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Robinhood rolled out its own perp offering in the EU a month earlier and is probably looking for a way to bring it stateside.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Perp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perp. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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perp
noun
: a perpetrator of a crime
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