anti-circ

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ circ

Adjective

anti-circ (not comparable)

1. (informal) Synonym of anticircumcision
   • 1997 August 20, Hank Hyena, “Foreskin or against it?”, in Salon:

     The next morning I typed “circumcision” into Yahoo! Twenty-three site matches appeared. Many were the same affirmative reports I’d already examined, but there was also a promising list of anti-circ groups.

   • 2007 July 12, Craig Malisow, “The Fantastic Foreskin”, in Houston Press:

     Guerin Woodgate Jr., 29, says he never thought much about his circumcision until he stumbled upon some anti-circ Web sites about ten years ago.

   • 2010, Shirley R. Steinberg, Michael Kehler, Lindsay Cornish, editors, Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 135:

     Circumcision has been widespread as a routine neonatal procedure in America, resulting in an enduring clash between the medical community and the anti-circ (anti-circumcision) movement that hosts conferences, rallies, anti-circ days, and numerous Web sites.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anti-circ.

Antonyms

• pro-circ