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Kafkatrapping en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkæfkəˌtræpɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɑfkəˌtræpɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Kafkatrap + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, uncountable) gerund of Kafkatrap: the action of employing a Kafkatrap against (someone).
    form of Kafkatrap
    • The risk is that so-called "anti-racist" training and programming at Cornell will resemble such efforts at some other colleges, where sessions turning into race-shaming and racial kafkatrapping (use of denial of an accusation as proof of the accusation). 2021 February 24, William A. Jacobson, quotee, “Cornell Daily Sun interviews Professor William Jacobson on CRT [Critical Race Training] site”, in The Cornell Review, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2021:

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Kafkatrapping en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkæfkəˌtræpɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɑfkəˌtræpɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Kafkatrap + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of Kafkatrap
    form of Kafkatrap