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emasculator en · NOUN

Etymology

Latin

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, emasculates.
   • […] criticized Black men's perceptions of Black women as emasculators and oppressors […] 2006, Lee Ann Banaszak, The U.S. Women's Movement in Global Perspective, page 120:
   • I handed her the knife and the emasculator, which, like the garden shears they resembled, and any other good tool, does exactly what its name says it's going to do. 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 161:
2. One who, or that which, emasculates. ▸ A type of clamp used to crush the spermatic cord when castrating livestock.

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