buck breaking

English

Etymology

buck (as in Black Buck) + breaking (as in breaking an object)

Noun

buck breaking (countable and uncountable, plural buck breakings)

  1. (archaic, offensive) The act of first flogging a slave, and subsequently sexually assaulting or raping them publicly, in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate them.
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