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perv

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//pɜːv//
  • United States//pɝv//

A pervert.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA pervert.

    It is hoped that you will get at least a taste of kinky practices throughout the ages and come to the understanding that today’s kinky crowd is but the latest in a line of pervs stretching back to the dawn of mankind itself.

  2. 2

    slangAn ogle; an act of leering or voyeurism.

    After the next ball had been bowled the blokes' heads would turn around unobtrusively to have a perv at a bird in a mini-skirt...

    It transpires that whilst Trev and Boz (me) slowed down to 'take a perv' at the blonde, she too used to keep an eye out for me.

    She had a bit of a perv over my body when I was working out…

    Was she bursting in for a quick perv? Was she genuinely concerned that I might have soiled the bathwater by not first washing? Was she worried I might have drowned in the bath?

Etymology

Clipping of pervert.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo act in a sexually perverted manner.

    God, could you stop perving out over my sister? She's literally 14.

  2. 2

    slangTo act in a sexually perverted manner. To look at lasciviously or voyeuristically.

    The soccer coach perved on one of the players as he undressed in the change room.

Forms

plural
pervs
past tense
perved
past participle
perved
present participle
perving
third person singular
pervs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).