two-minute hate
two-minute hate noun: ritualized hatred towards a perceived enemy, especially when encouraged for political reasons.
Noun
two-minute hate (plural two-minute hates)
- Ritualized hatred towards a perceived enemy, especially when encouraged for political reasons.
- There were to be no loyalty parades with bleating school children carrying flags down mainstreet while every heart rises ; nor were there to be pictures of the enemy showing him with claws, fangs, or tusks to induce our two-minute hates1958, Inland
- The contrast between the two eras is clever and effective, and, with the Great Depression still chugging along at the time of the story's first publication, contemporary readers suffering that debacle's effects would have had no trouble working up a good two-minute hate for the too-comfortable...2005, Grant Burns, The Railroad in American Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, McFarland, →ISBN, page 94
Forms of two-minute hate
| plural | two-minute hates |
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Origin of two-minute hate
From the fictional Two Minutes Hate in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Questions about two-minute hate
- What does two-minute hate mean?
- Two-minute hate means ritualized hatred towards a perceived enemy, especially when encouraged for political reasons.
- What part of speech is two-minute hate?
- Two-minute hate is a noun.
- What is the plural of two-minute hate?
- The plural of two-minute hate is two-minute hates.
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