English Explanatory Dictionary

buck breaking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by flogging him, and in some cases subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate him.

Word forms

buck breaking

Etymology

buck (in derogatory US sense of a black man) + breaking (as in breaking a horse)

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