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hate-crime

noun

Etymology

From hate + crime.

  1. derived from crīmen
  2. derived from crime
  3. inherited from cryme
  4. compounded as hate-crime — “hate + crime”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of hate crime.

  2. To subject (someone) to a hate crime

    To subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).

    • "I just paid five g's to get your hate-criming ass out of jail! You better recognize!"
    • So that day, after Donna verbally hate-crimed me in the bowling alley, making our bowling game more of a “Gays Can Win” campaign, I was waiting at the bus stop with my team, watching a pigeon drink from a grimy gutter puddle and ...
    • I'd just been hate-crimed...or attempted hate-crimed. I didn't know the specific definition. Did such a crime have to result in death or did the pain I felt from a beating count? Did I have to report the incident to the police?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hate-crime. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA