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单词 race-bait
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race-baitv.

Brit. /ˈreɪsbeɪt/, U.S. /ˈreɪsˌbeɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: race n.6, bait v.
Etymology: < race n.6 + bait v., after race-baiter n., race-baiting n., race-baiting adj.
U.S.
1. intransitive. To engage in race-baiting.
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1943 Chicago Defender 10 July 15/6 Rep. Manasco..race-baited before the civil service committee, ‘FEPC stirs up these race riots.’
1984 Phylon 45 142 No longer fashionable in polite conversation to explicitly race-bait, racism today is more subtly expressed.
2005 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 7 Sept. [He] should not see the tragedy in New Orleans as a chance to race-bait and make political hay.
2. transitive. To attack by means of race-baiting; (also) to appeal to by means of race-baiting.
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1951 Chicago Defender 3 Nov. 10/2 Senator Smith..race-baited Senator Graham out of his Senate seat.
1989 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 6 Apr. 2 He was elected on the issue of race... He openly race-baited Jesse Jackson during last year's politics.
1995 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 2 Apr. 1 Passed over, lied to and fed up, an Angry White Male is being race-baited in opposition to affirmative-action programs.
2001 J. P. Lewis Buffalo Gordon (2002) 189 An excuse for the local population to provoke and race-bait the troopers.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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