Per‧rin, Re‧gin‧ald /ˈperən, ˈperɪn, ˈredʒənəld/

1. a character played by the actor Leonard Rossiter in the humorous British television programme The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. He was a businessman who made people think that he had died in the sea, because he was bored with his life and wanted to start a new life as a different person.

2. do a Reggie Perrin British English informal to pretend to disappear or die so that you can start a different life

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