jackrolling
n.— «In a related survey conducted among 1,500 schoolchildren in the Soweto township, a quarter of all the boys interviewed said that “jackrolling”—a South African term for recreational gang rape—was fun.» —“South Africa’s rape shock” BBC News Jan. 19, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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