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hate-crime en · NOUN

Etymology

From hate + crime.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of hate crime.
    alt of hate crime

Forms

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hate-crimes Number=Plur lexicographic

hate-crime en · VERB

Etymology

From hate + crime.

Meanings

  1. (informal) To subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).
    • 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. 2016, Sam Lansky, The Gilded Razor: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 111:
    • 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 ... 2011, Steve Berman, Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:
    • 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, ... 2015, Michael A. Messner, Max A. Greenberg, Tal Peretz, Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
    • 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? 2012, Jeremy Jordan King, In Stone: A Grotesque Faerie Tale, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:
    • '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. 2014, Tom Bryant, Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance, →ISBN, page 223:
    • "I just paid five g's to get your hate-criming ass out of jail! You better recognize!" 2011, Peter Nathaniel Malae, What We Are: A Novel, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN:
    • 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! 2014, Jamie Kilstein, Allison Kilkenny, Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 71:

Forms

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hate-crimed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hate-crimed Tense=Past lexicographic
hate-criming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hate-crimes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic