gate rape
English edit
Etymology edit
From gate (“passageway in an airport for embarking passengers”) + rape, formed to rhyme with date rape.
Noun edit
gate rape (countable and uncountable, plural gate rapes)
- (informal, derogatory) Aggressive security screening prior to aircraft boarding.
- 2010 December 3, Kim Conte, “Most Humiliating TSA Pat-Downs of the Week”, in The Stir[1]:
- Now, some women's advocates are referring to the situation as "Gate Rape" and speaking out against incidents like these so that other women don't have to endure the same humiliation.
- 2011 April 20, Maureen Dowd, “Stripped of Dignity”, in The New York Times[2], page A23:
- Ever since the Thanksgiving rebellion over intrusive new pat-downs that some have dubbed “gate-rape,” Americans have been debating security requirements versus privacy rights.
Verb edit
gate rape (third-person singular simple present gate rapes, present participle gate raping, simple past and past participle gate raped)
- (informal, derogatory, of airport security staff) To screen (someone) aggressively prior to allowing them to board an aircraft.
- 2011 January 7, Becky Akers, “How to Save Million$ Reading TNA's Website!”, in The New American[3], archived from the original on 13 January 2011:
- And yet for all its tyranny, Israel doesn’t gate-rape passengers as does America's TSA.
- 2012 November 18, Courtney Lilly, “A General Thanksgiving Episode”, in The Cleveland Show, season 4, episode 3, spoken by Cleveland Brown (Mike Henry):
- We need to open a bar at that airport. People need a stiff drink after being gate raped by the TSA.