"happy slapping" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: happy slappings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} happy slapping (countable and uncountable, plural happy slappings)
  1. (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. Wikipedia link: happy slapping Tags: countable, informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Violence Related terms: happy slap, happy slapper Translations (Translations): vidéo-lynchage [masculine] (French), vidéolynchage [masculine] (French)

Inflected forms

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