date rape

See also: date-rape

English

Noun

date rape (plural date rapes)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• acquaintance rape

Derived terms

• date rape drug
• date rapist/date-rapist

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: violación por acompañante f
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See also

• gray rape
• rapee
• rapist