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Weinsteining

Weinsteining is the present participle and gerund of Weinstein.

Meaning of Weinstein

Verb

Weinstein (third-person singular simple present Weinsteins, present participle Weinsteining, simple past and past participle Weinsteined)

  1. (slang) To make inappropriate sexual advances, especially from a position of power.
    • After all, long before the #MeToo movement exposed workplace cultures of sexual harrasment and assault, before “getting Weinsteined” became colloquial shorthand for being forced into nonconsensual sexual acts for fear of losing one's job, Black women had been leading the charge against racialized...[2023, Hajar Yazdiha, The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 165
  2. (slang, transitive, uncommon) To accuse someone in an influential position of sexual harassment.
    • None of this should be hard. There are too many allegations settled for too much money for O’Reilly to receive the benefit of the doubt. It’s time for O’Reilly to be Weinsteined.2017 October 22, David French, “It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly To Be Weinsteined”, in National Review, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2020

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Questions about Weinsteining

What is Weinsteining the present participle and gerund of?
Weinsteining is the present participle and gerund of Weinstein.

Words near Weinsteining in the dictionary

  1. Weinstein
  2. Weinstein effect
  3. Weinstein-Aronszajn identity
  4. Weinsteined
  5. Weinsteinian
  6. Weinsteining
  7. Weinsteins
  8. Weinstock
  9. Weinstocks
  10. Weintraub
  11. Weinzierl

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