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noun
A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A meeting in which people who disagree with a preferred ideology are humiliated or bullied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively
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History
Calque from Chinese 批鬥大會/批斗大会 (pīdòu dàhuì)
