gang rape

noun

: rape of one person by several attackers in succession
gang-rape transitive verb

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Documentarian and narrative filmmaker Sandhya Suri recalls being struck by an image taken during protests over the horrific gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh by six men on a bus in Delhi. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024 Earlier this month a judge ruled that one of Diddy's accusers, who filed a suit against the rapper and the former president of Bad Boy Records Harve Pierre, alleging a gang rape in 2003, must come forward. Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024 Tal and Oren Alexander, once top real estate agents, and their brother Alon, are accused of using travel, luxury accommodations and other lures to draw dozens of women to isolated locations and then gang rape them. Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 The #MeToo movement has also taken off in India, a country still reeling from the horrific gang rape and murder of a young woman on a New Delhi bus in 2012. Pardis Mahdavi, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2018 See all Example Sentences for gang rape 

Word History

First Known Use

1875, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gang rape was in 1875

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“Gang rape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gang%20rape. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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