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hate-crime

hate-crime is the alternative form of hate crime.

Meaning of hate crime

Noun

hate crime (countable and uncountable, plural hate crimes)

  1. (crime) A crime motivated by hate for a race, gender, religion, etc., which may result in harsh punishments, the severity of which varies by statute and the nature of the crime.
    • I feel a hate crime coming on.1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee)

Verb

hate-crime (third-person singular simple present hate-crimes, present participle hate-criming, simple past and past participle hate-crimed)

  1. (informal) To subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).
    • "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
    • 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

Forms of hate-crime

Noun
pluralhate-crimes
Verb
third-person singular presenthate-crimes
present participlehate-criming
past participlehate-crimed
pasthate-crimed

Origin of hate-crime

From hate + crime.

Questions about hate-crime

What does hate-crime mean?
Hate-crime means to subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).
What is hate-crime the alternative form of?
Hate-crime is the alternative form of hate crime.
What part of speech is hate-crime?
Hate-crime is a verb.
What is the past tense of hate-crime?
The past tense of hate-crime is hate-crimed.

Words near hate-crime in the dictionary

  1. hate watch
  2. hate-blog
  3. hate-blogs
  4. hate-boner
  5. hate-boners
  6. hate-crime
  7. hate-crimed
  8. hate-crimes
  9. hate-criming
  10. hate-filled
  11. hate-fuck

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hate-crime (page history and authors); hate crime (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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