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单词 perp
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Definition of perp in English:

perp

noun pəːppərp
North American informal
  • The perpetrator of a crime.

    he steps into a pothole chasing a perp down a dark street
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A crime is committed early on, the perp is unknown, and the story ends approximately when the investigating officer, always a major character, discovers who did it.
    • The local show that assists police with their investigations has been on the scene for 100 episodes tonight, having helped solve over 500 crimes and seen 130 perps caught.
    • He heard the perps denying the charges that were brought against them.
    • John's not out in the streets with the perps and corpses.
    • With pinpoint accuracy, the two teed off and pegged the perp in the knee, downing him until police caught up.
    • The evidence will lead to the guilty, and any cop who decides who's the perp and then checks the evidence shouldn't have been a cop in the first place.
    • She stole a police squad car with the perp who shot the chief of police.
    • Because the perps have generally kept their faces covered and worn gloves, substantial clues have been difficult to come by.
    • If a perp fails to give way, a patrol car down the road makes the arrest.
    • Its creations range from a robot that labors in nuclear facilities to a net that's used by police to trap fleeing perps.
    • You know, they could be just playing it close to the vest and not tipping out - tipping off the person out there, the real perp, as to what the police really know.
    • Unlike their television and film portrayal, they aren't kicking down the doors of suspects, roughing up perps in interrogation rooms, or consulting them in quid-pro-quo discussions.
    • They want to believe that they'll get to run around in the dark and dirty streets and chase down perps with high-tech antenna triangulation.
    • The investigators go to Albany and Atlanta to find their perp, run into endless roadblocks, combat fatigue, and must reconcile with the angry community.
    • All the possible perps and witnesses are long dead.
    • The officers of the law had shown up, cuffed the perps, taken lots of names, and asked Wendy and Conner and Alan about six thousand questions.
    • What's worse is that the perp will walk and go on to commit more crimes.
    • We now officially live in the age of the forensic cop show - where police rely not on brass knuckles to bring down perps, but on science.
    • In places where the police spend more time interacting with people as people and not as perps, they are noticeably different.
    • For example, battery under the common law was a general intent crime requiring the perp's awareness that he is acting in a proscribed manner.

Origin

1980s: abbreviation.

 
 

Definition of perp in US English:

perp

nounpərp
North American informal
  • The perpetrator of a crime.

    he steps into a pothole chasing a perp down a dark street
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What's worse is that the perp will walk and go on to commit more crimes.
    • You know, they could be just playing it close to the vest and not tipping out - tipping off the person out there, the real perp, as to what the police really know.
    • She stole a police squad car with the perp who shot the chief of police.
    • We now officially live in the age of the forensic cop show - where police rely not on brass knuckles to bring down perps, but on science.
    • For example, battery under the common law was a general intent crime requiring the perp's awareness that he is acting in a proscribed manner.
    • Because the perps have generally kept their faces covered and worn gloves, substantial clues have been difficult to come by.
    • If a perp fails to give way, a patrol car down the road makes the arrest.
    • The local show that assists police with their investigations has been on the scene for 100 episodes tonight, having helped solve over 500 crimes and seen 130 perps caught.
    • In places where the police spend more time interacting with people as people and not as perps, they are noticeably different.
    • The officers of the law had shown up, cuffed the perps, taken lots of names, and asked Wendy and Conner and Alan about six thousand questions.
    • John's not out in the streets with the perps and corpses.
    • He heard the perps denying the charges that were brought against them.
    • Its creations range from a robot that labors in nuclear facilities to a net that's used by police to trap fleeing perps.
    • All the possible perps and witnesses are long dead.
    • The evidence will lead to the guilty, and any cop who decides who's the perp and then checks the evidence shouldn't have been a cop in the first place.
    • They want to believe that they'll get to run around in the dark and dirty streets and chase down perps with high-tech antenna triangulation.
    • Unlike their television and film portrayal, they aren't kicking down the doors of suspects, roughing up perps in interrogation rooms, or consulting them in quid-pro-quo discussions.
    • With pinpoint accuracy, the two teed off and pegged the perp in the knee, downing him until police caught up.
    • A crime is committed early on, the perp is unknown, and the story ends approximately when the investigating officer, always a major character, discovers who did it.
    • The investigators go to Albany and Atlanta to find their perp, run into endless roadblocks, combat fatigue, and must reconcile with the angry community.

Origin

1980s: abbreviation.

 
 
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