A drug that causes temporary loss of memory or inhibition, surreptitiously given to someone in order to facilitate rape or sexual abuse.
Example sentencesExamples
The plaintiff was one of three women who accused him of knocking them out with the date-rape drug GHB and sexually assaulting them at his beach house north west of Los Angeles.
It has not been established what drugs were used, but the date-rape drugs rohypnol and GHB, or powerful sedatives, are suspected.
He preyed on vulnerable women, poisoning them with what is believed to have been the date-rape drug GHB before violently raping them and conning them out of money.
In Westminster alone police are investigating nine alleged sex offences, including seven alleged rapes, which are thought to have involved date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol, which can be bought over the Internet.
He said someone could have slipped something into her drink, possibly one of the number of date-rape drugs which induce a feeling of dissociation, memory loss and confusion.
Definition of date-rape drug in US English:
date-rape drug
noun
A drug that causes temporary loss of memory or inhibition, surreptitiously given to someone in order to facilitate rape or sexual abuse.
Example sentencesExamples
In Westminster alone police are investigating nine alleged sex offences, including seven alleged rapes, which are thought to have involved date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol, which can be bought over the Internet.
He said someone could have slipped something into her drink, possibly one of the number of date-rape drugs which induce a feeling of dissociation, memory loss and confusion.
He preyed on vulnerable women, poisoning them with what is believed to have been the date-rape drug GHB before violently raping them and conning them out of money.
The plaintiff was one of three women who accused him of knocking them out with the date-rape drug GHB and sexually assaulting them at his beach house north west of Los Angeles.
It has not been established what drugs were used, but the date-rape drugs rohypnol and GHB, or powerful sedatives, are suspected.