Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perp-walk

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

Syllables: per-p-walk
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To take (someone) for a perp walk.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Denominal verb of perp walk.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

perp-walks (present, singular) perp-walking (participle, present) perp-walked (participle, past) perp-walked (past)

Questions

What does perp-walk mean?: To take (someone) for a perp walk.
Where does perp-walk come from?: Denominal verb of perp walk.

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