human flesh search engine

human flesh search engine

English

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 人肉搜索 (rénròu sōusuǒ).

Noun

human flesh search engine (plural human flesh search engines)

1. The Chinese phenomenon of distributed research using Internet media such as blogs and forums, sometimes as a form of vigilantism against an individual person.

Synonyms

• HFSE (initialism)

Translations

Chinese phenomenon

Chinese: Mandarin: 人肉搜索 (zh) (rénròu sōusuǒ)

Finnish: ihmislihainen hakukone Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• doxx