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stranger rape
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noun
sexual assault by an assailant upon a person he or she does not know.
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βWasβ is used for the indicative past tense of βto be,β and βwereβ is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
Origin of stranger rape
First recorded in 1990β95
Words nearby stranger rape
strange matter, strangeness, strange particle, strange quark, stranger, stranger rape, stranger's gallery, strange star, strange to say, strangle, stranglehold
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