date rape
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See also: date-rape
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date rape (plural date rapes)
- A rape committed by an acquaintance of the victim while out on a date.
- 1974, Noreen Connell, Cassandra Wilson, Rape: the first sourcebook for women, New American Library, page 155:
- However, from a more practical point of view it would be wise to adopt a distinction between "date rape" and "stranger rape" since jurors are likely to adopt such a distinction on their own.
- A rape committed after a perpetrator first secretly administers a sedative or memory-inhibiting drug (a date rape drug) to a victim under the cover of a social setting.
- 2010, Allison Brennan, Love Me to Death, page 11:
- The hospital didn't find signs of forced sex and didn't initially test for date-rape drugs — Prenter had time to dispose of his home chemistry lab. There had been circumstantial evidence that Prenter targeted other victims online. He'd hook up, drug and rape them, and drop them at their house.
- 2024 August 18, Mueller, She Wrote, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 August 2024:
- The date rape brigade has arrived.
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