date rapen.
/ˈdeɪt ˌreɪp/, U.S. /ˈdeɪt ˌreɪp/ Originally U.S.
Rape committed by a person the victim is dating (date v. 10b), or (now usually) with whom she (or he) is on a date; an instance of this.Usually, but not always, with reference to rape of a woman by a man (cf. quot. 2002).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman > forcible > specific types of
statutory rape1873
gang rape1875
marital rape1884
train1962
pack rape1972
date rape1973
acquaintance rape1974
1973 Anderson (Indiana) Daily Bull. 15 Nov. 16/2 Wilson said he will propose laws dealing with various degrees of rape to distinguish ‘date rape from stranger rape’.
1984 M. Amis Money 26 With a regular rape, lust plays no part in it... But with a date-rape, lust features.
2002 R. B. Flowers Kids who commit Adult Crimes vi. 82 Although youth date rape is largely a male perpetrator/female victim phenomenon, young males can also be victims of forced sexual aggression.
2006 City News (Brisbane) 20 Apr. 1/2 City youth are risking death and date rape through their increased use of party drugs, authorities warn.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
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1978 A. N. Groth et al. in A. W. Burgess et al. Sexual Assault of Children & Adolescents iii. 52 A pressured, ‘date rape’ situation with a female classmate.
1984 Newsweek (Nexis) 9 Apr. 91 A date-rape victim who decides to press charges against her attacker may face a second grueling ordeal when she comes up against the criminal justice system.
2001 Times 22 Mar. ii. 18/1 Untrue rumours that result in a date-rape charge, suicide and some of the Hollywood rule book's most familiar twists.
2003 Independent on Sunday 23 Nov. (Life Etc. section) 1/3 Perhaps most sinisterly, they [sc. benzodiazepines] are central to the date rape phenomenon.
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date-rape drug n. any of a number of sedative or hypnotic drugs having among their effects temporary loss of memory or inhibition, and sometimes found to have been surreptitiously administered to a victim of date rape by the perpetrator.
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1995 Orange County (Calif.) Register 26 Nov. 1/1 (heading) The substance has also been referred to as ‘the date rape drug’ and, the ‘Quaalude of the '90s’.
1999 M. Silcott Rave Amer. v. 139 Clubbers and ravers called Rohypnol ‘Roofies’; the six o'clock news called it ‘the date-rape drug’.
2007 Guardian 3 Apr. 1/1 They are sold legally in this country as industrial solvents and cleaners, but when ingested have a similar effect to the known date rape drug GHB, banned here in 2003.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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