Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

black rage defense

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables: black- rage de-fense
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A defense of a crime committed by a black person on the grounds that the person was driven to temporary insanity as a result of other people's racial prejudice.

Informal

Example Sentences

"Sixty-eight percent of polled blacks "found the black rage defense compelling," while, incredibly, so did 45 percent of the whites."
"Black rage defenses are state-of-mind defenses. They are not only applicable in self-defense and insanity cases, but also may be used to negate the specific mental state required for a first-degree murder […]"

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

black rage defenses (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

gay panic defense trans panic defense urban survival syndrome

Questions

What does black rage defense mean?: A defense of a crime committed by a black person on the grounds that the person was driven to temporary insanity as a result of other people's racial prejudice.

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