Noun
The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick! Abbie Hoffman
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples. Seneca
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. Albert Wynn
Which looks like a mixture of lacrosse and second-degree manslaughter. David Feherty
Manslaughter was requited through blood revenge. Accordingly the offender, to escape the avenger, would be forced to flee, cut off from his land and people, at the mercy of strangers far from home. Cyrus H. Gordon
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. Roger Ascham