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perp walk

noun

  1. informal.
    an arranged public appearance of a recently arrested criminal for the benefit of the media
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In court, Valente showed he knows how to dress for a perp walk, sporting a striped shirt and a purple scarf.

Strauss-Kahn, remember, was supposed to win them the presidency before that Manhattan perp walk.

She was arrested hours later, and her perp walk was broadcast in local media.

In this country, the “perp walk” tradition is as American as the right to remain silent, and it is rarely seriously questioned.

Still, the perp walk is probably here to stay, an enduring vestige of medieval stocks in the public square.

I raised my arms over my head like a prizefighter and made my exit from Social Studies and began the perp-walk to the office.

I did my key and did the perp-walk around the gang, letting everyone snap a pic.

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