"rape tree" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: rape trees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} rape tree (plural rape trees)
  1. A tree or similar structure supposedly used by smugglers near the US-Mexico border to exhibit their sexual assaults by hanging victims' undergarments from the branches as trophies.

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