happy slapping

English

Noun

happy slapping (countable and uncountable, plural happy slappings)

(informal) The practice of physically attacking (originally, slapping), and often verbally abusing, a person and photographing or filming the attack using a camera phone, the recording sometimes being sent to others to further humiliate the victim.
Coordinate term: patterning

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Translations

Translations

French: vidéo-lynchage (fr) m, vidéolynchage (fr) m

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English happy slapping.

Pronunciation

(Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˌɦɛ.pi ˈslɛ.pɪŋ/

Noun

happy slapping m (uncountable)

happy slapping

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