Usually means: Intense public fear about morality.
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  1. moral panic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. moral-panic, moral panic: Wiktionary
  3. Moral panic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. moral panic: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (moral panic)

noun:  A semi-spontaneous or media-generated mass movement based on the perception that an individual, group, community, or culture is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society; a public outcry.

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