hyperpolice

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ police

Verb

hyperpolice (third-person singular simple present hyperpolices, present participle hyperpolicing, simple past and past participle hyperpoliced)

  1. (transitive) To police to an extreme and oppressive degree.
    • 2021, Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, She is Weeping, page 251:
      The contemporary emotional economy of racialized slavery in the Atlantic world is prolonged through the carceral industries that hyperpolice Black emotions and terrorize Black lives.
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