speakout

See also: speak out

English

Etymology

Deverbal from speak out.

Noun

speakout (plural speakouts)

1. A public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape.
   • 2002, The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding, →ISBN:

     What they lack, though, is something that has to do with the stepping of the individual storyteller into the public when she (or he) tells her (or his) own rape story in a speakout.

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Related terms

• speak out

Anagrams

• outspake, outspeak