Weinstein

plural Weinsteins

1. An occupational or ornamental surname from German.

   Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.

   2005 March 30, “Miramax founders leave Disney”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2021

2. An ornamental surname from Yiddish.

present singular third person Weinsteins · participle present Weinsteining · participle past Weinsteined · past Weinsteined

1. slangTo make inappropriate sexual advances, especially from a position of power.

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   After all, long before the #MeToo movement exposed workplace cultures of sexual harrasment and assault, before “getting Weinsteined” became colloquial shorthand for being forced into nonconsensual sexual acts for fear of losing one's job, Black women had been leading the charge against racialized sexual […]

   [2023, Hajar Yazdiha, The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 165

2. slangtransitiveuncommonTo accuse someone in an influential position of sexual harassment.

   Waiting to Be Weinsteined: When Will Accusations of Sexual Harassment Arise in Architecture? [title]

   2017 November 21, Aaron Betsky, “Waiting to Be Weinsteined: When Will Accusations of Sexual Harassment Arise in Architecture?”, in Architect Magazine, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2026

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   None of this should be hard. There are too many allegations settled for too much money for O’Reilly to receive the benefit of the doubt. It’s time for O’Reilly to be Weinsteined.

   2017 October 22, David French, “It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly To Be Weinsteined”, in National Review, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2020