perp-walk

present singular third person perp-walks · participle present perp-walking · participle past perp-walked · past perp-walked

1. transitiveTo 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.

   2007, Fake Steve Jobs [pseudonym; Daniel Lyons], chapter 5, in oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs: A Parody, [Cambridge, Mass.]: Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 27

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   She wove through the busy students toward him, snagging his arm and all but perp-walking him outside to the front of the bakeshop.

   2009, Karen Sandler, chapter 8, in The Family He Wanted (Special Edition; 1968), New York, N.Y.: Silhouette Books, →ISBN, pages 107–108

   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.

   2012, Stuart Gibbs, “Analysis”, in Spy School, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 152