date-raped; date-raping; date-rapes
: to commit date rape on
date rapist
noun
: rape committed by the victim's date
broadly
: acquaintance rape
Examples of date-rape in a Sentence
Noun
He was accused of date rape.
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Kc Baker, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
But in her lawsuit, Evans says officers did not allow her to be tested for date-rape drugs and that her rape kit was not properly administered.
—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 26 June 2024
Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024
But the recent death of Riley Strain, 22, whose body was found the Cumberland River after he was kicked out of a Lower Broadway bar, and a rise in reports of date rape drugs, has raised concerns over downtown’s safety.
—David Farré, The Tennessean, 3 Apr. 2024
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Verb
During opening arguments in an L.A. courtroom on Jan. 9, prosecutors claimed Pearce gave the women a lethal mix of drugs, including cocaine and fentanyl and, in Giles’s case, the date-rape drug GHB, before dropping the women off, barely alive, with Osborn at separate L.A. hospitals.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
But in her lawsuit, Evans says officers did not allow her to be tested for date-rape drugs and that her rape kit was not properly administered.
—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 26 June 2024
Noun
More than 2,000 bars and nightclubs in California must help customers test for date rape drugs in drinks under a new state law.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024
But the recent death of Riley Strain, 22, whose body was found the Cumberland River after he was kicked out of a Lower Broadway bar, and a rise in reports of date rape drugs, has raised concerns over downtown’s safety.
—David Farré, The Tennessean, 3 Apr. 2024
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“Date-rape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/date-rape. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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date rape
noun
: rape committed by the victim's date
broadly
: acquaintance rape
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