happy slapping

English

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Noun

happy slapping (countable and uncountable, plural happy slappings)

  1. (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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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English happy slapping.

Pronunciation

Noun

happy slapping m (uncountable)

  1. happy slapping
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