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reverse rape

reverse rape noun: the act of a female raping a male.

Noun

reverse rape (countable and uncountable, plural reverse rapes)

  1. The act of a female raping a male.
    • Minutes later it was over and the victim, Doug, an advertising executive in Connecticut, had been raped by a woman. Occurrences of reverse rape have increased dramatically in recent years.1986, Bob Larson, Larson's Book of Family Issues, page 149
    • To understand why she reacted in that way to both the social climate of rape and the rape of the woman reader in Les Liaisons, it is instructive to remember how every rape in Laclos is a staged event — simultaneously high-spirited and cruel as with Cecile, paradoxical as with Merteuil's...2006, Suellen Diaconoff, Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment

Forms of reverse rape

pluralreverse rapes

Origin of reverse rape

So called because it is the opposite of the more common case of a man raping a woman.

Questions about reverse rape

What does reverse rape mean?
Reverse rape means the act of a female raping a male.
What part of speech is reverse rape?
Reverse rape is a noun.
What is the plural of reverse rape?
The plural of reverse rape is reverse rapes.

Words near reverse rape in the dictionary

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  3. reverse racism
  4. reverse racist
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  6. reverse rape
  7. reverse rapes
  8. reverse rapist
  9. reverse rapists
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