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rite of passage
(redirected from Initiation rite)

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rite of passage (rt)
n.
A ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person's life indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood.


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Edward Wilson's early college career includes dressing in drag to perform in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and engaging in naked mud wrestling as part of a college initiation rite.
Instruct students to draw an image or write a paragraph that describes a modern initiation rite that celebrates a person's acceptance into a social or family group.
Ever so often she would send me a story of two, including gross and graphic stuff about a sorority of black women who had sex as an initiation rite.
 
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