date rape

plural date rapes

1. countableuncountableA rape committed by an acquaintance of the victim while out on a date.

   However, from a more practical point of view it would be wise to adopt a distinction between "date rape" and "stranger rape" since jurors are likely to adopt such a distinction on their own.

   1974, Noreen Connell, Cassandra Wilson, Rape: the first sourcebook for women, New American Library, page 155

2. countableuncountableA rape committed after a perpetrator first secretly administers a sedative or memory-inhibiting drug (a date rape drug) to a victim under the cover of a social setting.

   The date rape brigade has arrived.

   2024 August 18, Mueller, She Wrote, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2024

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   In this light, it is not very surprising that so many date-rape charges fly after these "hook-ups".

   2000, Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, page 29

   Some even say it's not really date rape if you meet a guy at a party, hook up, and then he forces you to have sex with him.

   2009, Patti Feuereisen, Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse, page 184

   The hospital didn't find signs of forced sex and didn't initially test for date-rape drugs — Prenter had time to dispose of his home chemistry lab. There had been circumstantial evidence that Prenter targeted other victims online. He'd hook up, drug and rape them, and drop them at their house.

   2010, Allison Brennan, Love Me to Death, page 11

   Eyesight is a gateway to a new day and the same hate / With a new height and the same feet on a airplane yellin' "Mayday" / With a good girl, gone bad girl who went gay cause of date rape / That's a metaphor for the US / 'Cause they got us all in the same state / State of mind, brain is minimized, put me on the news, only criticize / Revolution will never be televised

   2018, “Sirens”, in Ta13oo, performed by Denzel Curry, United States