Meaning of hate-crime | Babel Free

Definitions

To subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).

informal

Examples

“"I just paid five g's to get⟳ your hate-criming ass out of jail! You better recognize!"”

“So that day, after Donna verbally hate-crimed me in the bowling alley, making our bowling game more of a “Gays Can Win⟳” campaign, I was waiting at the bus stop⟳ with my team, watching a pigeon drink⟳ from a grimy gutter puddle and ...”

“I'd just been hate-crimed...or attempted hate-crimed. I didn't know⟳ the specific definition. Did such a crime have⟳ to result⟳ in death or did the pain I felt from a beating count⟳? Did I have⟳ to report⟳ the incident to the police?”

“'People in Mexico were getting hate-crimed on because they wore black and had moppy hair and so anywhere we went that's what people would talk⟳ about – they weren't talking about the music,' said Gerard.”

“These are two states in which most people assume⟳ you will be hate-crimed to death if you tell⟳ anyone you're vegan. Well, no more! There's even a vegan strip⟳ club in Portland, Oregon!”

“That same year, two thousand miles away, John Erickson's pathway to anti-violence work⟳ was sparked when he “was hate-crimed” as a first-year gay athlete by some of his teammates on his University of Wiscons in Whitewater volleyball team, ...”

“My hesitation wasn't a fear of homophobia—we were probably too young to get⟳ hate-crimed, anyway, although I worried sometimes for Jerick, who was so girlish.”

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