: the action of hazing
especially
: an initiation process involving harassment
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Private Ahn Joon-ho (Jung Hae-in) and Corporal Han Ho-yeol (Koo Kyo-hwan) are tasked with finding deserters but end up discovering a lot more about the bullying and hazing that causes soldiers to abandon their duties.
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Megan Vick, EW.com, 30 May 2024
Then as an act of jealous hazing, Glinda gifts Elphaba the pointed hat and perhaps that is the birth of wickedness.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
The hazing activities are described in the attorney general’s response to a motion filed by College Park fraternities and sororities against university officials who had suspended their recruitment and social activities in light of widespread hazing allegations.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
Prior to 2022, another North Carolina chapter, UNC Charlotte, was suspended in 2017 for four years because of hazing allegations.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 9 May 2024
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Megan Vick, EW.com, 30 May 2024
Then as an act of jealous hazing, Glinda gifts Elphaba the pointed hat and perhaps that is the birth of wickedness.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
The hazing activities are described in the attorney general’s response to a motion filed by College Park fraternities and sororities against university officials who had suspended their recruitment and social activities in light of widespread hazing allegations.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
Prior to 2022, another North Carolina chapter, UNC Charlotte, was suspended in 2017 for four years because of hazing allegations.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 9 May 2024
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“Hazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hazing. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.
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