MeToo

or Me Too

[ mee-too ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a social media hashtag of solidarity used by survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault in a public disclosure of a past or current personal experience in order to demonstrate the prevalence of abuse:
I never reported my boss because I couldn’t afford to lose my job. #MeToo
a social movement drawing attention to sexual harassment, sexual assault, and other abuses of authority, especially those resulting from gendered power imbalances in social institutions:
MeToo is revealing the tragic common thread in the lives of Hollywood stars, short-order cooks, soldiers, prisoners, students, etc.—no corner of society is immune to this epidemic of abuse.

adjective

relating to or noting this social movement: a powerful #MeToo spokesperson;
the MeToo era;
a powerful #MeToo spokesperson;
the Me Too backlash.

verb (used with object)

�ѱ�մǴ�’d or MeTooed, MeTooing.

to identify or accuse (one’s abuser) publicly in a claim of sexual harassment or sexual assault: Everyone warned her that MeTooing the chair of her dissertation committee would ruin her academic career.
How should celebrities who’ve been �ѱ�մǴ�’d make amends and start over?
Everyone warned her that MeTooing the chair of her dissertation committee would ruin her academic career.

Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of MeToo¹

Coined in 2006 by Tarana Burke, African American civil rights activist (born 1973)

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

The show was in the works for a while, but it arrived at the height of the #MeToo movement.

From

In a harsh reminder of where we are culturally at this particular moment, that retrial is being billed as a referendum on the #MeToo movement, which hoisted the epidemic of sexual assault into the spotlight.

From

But in the #MeToo movement, it was a hot witch hunt,” Rogan said.

From

“We asked the jury very clearly to send a message to the entire industry that the #MeToo movement is unfinished and in some ways forgotten already, and that they needed to hold the line and let everyone from New York to Hollywood to Washington, D.C., and in between, know that this kind of conduct is not OK and will not be accepted, period,” added lead counsel Brad Beckworth in a separate call from his office in New York.

From

Is this evidence of the #MeToo movement’s waning power, or is it more of the same from an industry that’s always eager for a man’s redemption story?

From

metonymy me-too

Browse