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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Lori Loughlin has gone from pleading guilty in real life to busting perps on screen.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
Jamie pins the perp against the wall and, in a moment of poetic closure, Janko arrives and cuffs him using Badillo's handcuffs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
But even if your name is one in a million, a perp could offer up that name to the police, perhaps with a fake ID.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Using two cantaloupes and some ketchup, Dexter demonstrates that the perp must have strangled his victim to death before dropping the body, accounting for the limited blood spatter.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Lori Loughlin has gone from pleading guilty in real life to busting perps on screen.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
Jamie pins the perp against the wall and, in a moment of poetic closure, Janko arrives and cuffs him using Badillo's handcuffs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
But even if your name is one in a million, a perp could offer up that name to the police, perhaps with a fake ID.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Perp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perp. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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perp
noun
: a perpetrator of a crime
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