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wilding
noun
violent youth gang activity directed towards random victims US
A term popularised by the “Central Park Jogger” case in 1989.- The suspects, who were among some 20 youths questioned for hours before the charges were announced, used the term “wilding” to describe the rampage, Colangelo said. “It’s not a term we in the police have heard before.” — United Press International, 21 April 1989
- — American Speech, Summer 1990
- T-Loc Ainsworth had come back to San Diego to testify against some homeboys in a 1988 “wilding” spree that had left one man dead and badly injured victims all across the county. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 409, 1993
- Tone Loc attracted the wrath of media elements hostile to rap when the innocent party sentiments of “Wild Thing” were confused with the term “wilding”, at that time a buzzword for black criminality. — Alex Ogg, The Hip Hop Years, p. 125, 1999
- Each time a rudie was busted it triggered a mass stampede, very close to a full-scale wilding. — Mick Farren, Give the Anarchist a Cigarette, p. 349, 2001
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