Happy slapping

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English

Noun

Singular happy slapping

Plural happy slappings

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(informal) The practice of physically attacking (originally, slapping), and often verbally abusing, a person and photographing or filming the attack using a camera phone, the recording sometimes being sent to others to further humiliate the victim.

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An act of happy slapping.

Related terms

• happy slap
• happy slapper