Walk of shame

Дата публикации: Oct 24, 2015 6:59:26 PM

The walk of shame refers to a situation in which a person must walk past strangers or peers alone for an embarrassing reason before reaching a place of safety and privacy. It often occurs the morning after a night out at a bar, nightclub, or party. People undertaking the walk of shame are understood to have spent the night at the residence of a sexual partner (or perceived sexual partner), particularly a one-night stand. The topic is often the subject of college newspaper commentary. The "walker" may often be identified by his or her disheveled appearance and incongruous evening attire, particularly on Saturday or Sunday mornings.

Urban Dictionary: the walk across campus in the same clothes as yesterday after you slept with someone and spent the night in their dorm room

Scott: hey man, nice hair - you doin the walk of shame?

Dan: what, me? ah... no... I, um, fell asleep in the library...

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A perp walk, or walking the perp is a common custom of American law enforcement, the practice of taking an arrested suspect through a public place at some point after the arrest, creating an opportunity for the media to take photographs and video of the event. The defendant is typically handcuffed or otherwise restrained, and is sometimes dressed in prison garb. Within the United States the perp walk is most closely associated with New York City

perp walk noun BrE /ˈpɜːp wɔːk/ ; NAmE /ˈpɜːrp wɔːk/ (North American English, informal)

the act of walking into or out of a police station, courthouse, etc., that the police force a person they have arrested to do, so that the media can show it to the public

perp noun BrE /pɜːp/ ; NAmE /pɜːrp/ (North American English, informal)

= perpetrator

perpetrator noun BrE /ˈpɜːpətreɪtə(r)/ ; NAmE /ˈpɜːrpətreɪtər/

(also North American English, informal perp)

a person who commits a crime or does something that is wrong or evil

the perpetrators of the crime

We will do everything in our power to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The perp stole a police car and got away.