net banging
n.— «By posting online content that glorifies the thug lifestyle, gangs are using the Web to recruit—some using children as young as 8 years old as part of the online recruiting process, known as “Net Banging.”» —“Mean Streets: Gangs Going Digital” by Pierre Thomas, Jack Date, Nitya Venkataraman WPVI-TV (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Feb. 19, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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