read someone to filth

English

Etymology

From the black gay slang term read (“call attention to someone's flaws”).

Verb

read someone to filth

  1. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To thoroughly insult, to comprehensively call attention to the flaws of (someone).
    • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:read someone to filth.
    Synonym: read someone for filth
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