Usually means: Suspect involved in a crime.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word perp:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. perp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perp: Merriam-Webster
  3. perp, perp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perp, perp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perp: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Perp, perp: Wordnik
  7. perp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. perp: Wiktionary
  9. perp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. perp: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. perp, perp: Dictionary.com
  12. PERP: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. perp, perp: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. perp: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. perp: Legal dictionary
  3. perp: Financial dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. perp: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PERP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. perp: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. perp, perp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Perp: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. perp: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (perp)

noun:  (slang, law enforcement) A perpetrator.
adjective:  (architecture) Clipping of perpendicular. [(geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).]

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