perp-walk

verb

Etymology

Denominal verb of perp walk.

Definitions

  1. To take (someone) for a perp walk.

    • There on CNN is Jeff Hernandez, a friend of ours, being perp-walked out of his house in Woodside by federal agents.
    • She wove through the busy students toward him, snagging his arm and all but perp-walking him outside to the front of the bakeshop.
    • It wasn’t until I had been perp-walked past the entire student body and locked in the Box for the night that it finally occurred to me to check my phone for messages.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA