rage cage
n.— «So another grant from the NSW Premier’s Department and the council in 2003 financed at the back of the estate a “rage cage”—a small cement court with a basketball ring and soccer goal. Parents have taken to calling it a “rape cage,” Porter says, because it backs onto bush and a dirt road and is out of sight of their eyes. “There were a couple of incidents down there involving young girls,” he says.» —“Less and less of a life in Moree” by Joel Gibson Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Mar. 7, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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