词汇 | perp walk |
词源 | perp walk. Perp walk, short for the rarely heard term perpe- trator walk, has been used for more than half a century by New York City police and the city’s newspaper photographers, the words describing the moment when a criminal suspect is walked out of a police stationhouse on the way to jail or court. The exit was designed to allow the police to publicize their lat- est catch and to shame the suspect. |
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