ˈhazing, vbl. n.
[f. haze v.1 + -ing1.]
1. A sound beating, a thrashing.
| 1825 Gentl. Mag. XCV. i. 396, I gave him a hazing. |
2. Naut. See haze v.1 2.
| 1893 J. A. Barry S. Brown's Bunyip, etc. 285 The process is called ‘hazing’. The sufferer gets all the dirtiest and most disagreeable..jobs to be found on shipboard. |
3. A species of brutal horseplay practised on freshmen at some American Colleges.
| a 1860 Harvard Mag. I. 413 (Bartlett) The absurd and barbarous custom of hazing, which has long prevailed in the college. 1892 Daily News 28 June 5/3 ‘Hazing’ at Yale has unhappily led to the death of an unfortunate young student named Rustin, and to a general denunciation of this custom as ‘stupid and brutal’. 1894 Ibid. 16 Oct. 5/4 The freshman class of Princeton is smaller this autumn than last..due in part to the hazing outrages of recent years. |