perp walknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpɜːp ˌwɔːk/us/ˈpɝːp ˌwɑːk/US informalan occasion when police officers take a person who has been arrested for a crime through a public area so he or she can be seen and photographed by the media
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arresting & charging
- apprehend
- apprehension
- arrest
- assist
- attachment
- charge
- charge sheet
- handcuffs
- hold
- house arrest
- knock
- lag
- Miranda
- pull sb in
- run
- run sb in
- take sb in
- the knock at/on the door idiom
- tighten
- tighten the net idiom
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