date-rape

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verb

ˈdāt-ˌrāp

date-raped; date-raping; date-rapes

transitive verb

: to commit date rape on

date rapist noun

date rape

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noun

: rape committed by the victim's date

broadly : acquaintance rape

Example Sentences

Noun He was accused of date rape.

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

Jonathan Vigliotti: Is GHB, is the date-rape drug something these women would have taken knowingly? —

Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2023 The group allegedly found drunk victims in bars and nightclubs, chatted them up and offered them a dangerous date-rape-style drug cocktail between Sept. 19, 2021, and Aug. 28, 2022. —

Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023

Noun

The term now would be date rape. —

Christina Dugan Ramirez, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023 The series tackled everything from date rape to drunk driving, becoming the first real teen soap phenomenon as fans declared themselves Team Dylan or Team Brandon and posters of Luke Perry and Jason Priestley adorned the walls of bedrooms everywhere. —

Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 10 May 2021 The subject is a date rape. —

Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 12 June 2020 Another alleged Jordan gave her GHB, commonly referred to as the date rape drug. —

James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023 The government took notice as stories of date rape associated with GHB began to appear in the news more frequently. —

David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022 As the Times noted, most date rape drugs don't stay in the system long enough to be detected in a standard drug test. —

Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022 The fact that Gavin was able to publish the date rape primer in the pages of Vice shows, what the media landscape was in the early aughts and going into 2013, 2014, where there was this horrible misogynist rhetoric that was seen as hip at the time. —

Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2022 In 2018, the city's Department of Investigation issued a report which said the SVD was understaffed, lacked experienced detectives, and that officers were often dismissive of date rape claims. —

Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 30 June 2022 See More

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