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Meaning of happy slapping | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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.

countable, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Français vidéo-lynchage vidéolynchage

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

happy snap happy talk Happy Time happy trail Happy Valley Happy Valley-Goose Bay

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