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rape tree

rape tree noun: a tree or similar structure said to be used by smugglers near the U.S.–Mexico border to exhibit their sexual assaults by hanging victims' undergarments from the branches as trophies.

Noun

rape tree (plural rape trees)

  1. A tree or similar structure said to be used by smugglers near the U.S.–Mexico border to exhibit their sexual assaults by hanging victims' undergarments from the branches as trophies.
    • A rape tree is what Mexican illegals create with the panties and bras of the women they have raped along the trail to America. After they have had their way with the women and young girls, they force them to hang their panties or bras, on the trees as a trophy or a sign of their conquest. […] [T]he...2010, Thomas R. Meinders, A Beautiful America
    • Some claim that sexual assault leaves a material trace of evidence: the so-called rape tree—a bush or tree with women's undergarments hanging from the branches.2016, Maria Theresia Starzmann, John R. Roby, Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting, page 211

Forms of rape tree

pluralrape trees

Questions about rape tree

What does rape tree mean?
Rape tree means a tree or similar structure said to be used by smugglers near the U.S.–Mexico border to exhibit their sexual assaults by hanging victims' undergarments from the branches as trophies.
What part of speech is rape tree?
Rape tree is a noun.
What is the plural of rape tree?
The plural of rape tree is rape trees.

Words near rape tree in the dictionary

  1. rape test kit
  2. rape test kits
  3. rape tool
  4. rape tools
  5. rape trauma syndrome
  6. rape tree
  7. rape trees
  8. rape van
  9. rape vans
  10. rape whistle
  11. rape whistles

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