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ear rape

ear rape noun: highly unpleasant or cacophonous sounds or music.

Noun

ear rape (countable and uncountable, plural ear rapes)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, often, slang, uncountable) Highly unpleasant or cacophonous sounds or music.
    Synonyms:
    cacophony
  2. (humorous, offensive, often, slang, uncountable) An act of deliberately increasing the volume of the audio of music, often for humorous effect.
  3. (countable, derogatory, slang) An instance of a highly unpleasant audio or song.

Verb

ear rape (third-person singular simple present ear rapes, present participle ear raping, simple past and past participle ear raped)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, often, slang) To be exposed to loud, unpleasant audio.

Synonyms of ear rape

Forms of ear rape

Noun
pluralear rapes
alternative formear-rape
alternative formearrape
Verb
third-person singular presentear rapes
present participleear raping
past participleear raped
pastear raped

Origin of ear rape

From ear + rape, metaphorically referring to an unwanted assault on the listener's ears.

Questions about ear rape

What does ear rape mean?
Ear rape means highly unpleasant or cacophonous sounds or music.
What part of speech is ear rape?
Ear rape can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of ear rape?
The plural of ear rape is ear rapes.

Words near ear rape in the dictionary

  1. ear players
  2. ear plucking
  3. ear prick
  4. ear pricks
  5. ear range
  6. ear rape
  7. ear raped
  8. ear rapes
  9. ear raping
  10. ear rocks
  11. ear shell

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