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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: offensive, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
buck (in derogatory US sense of a black man) + breaking (as in breaking a horse)
