Cuckooing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cuckooing is a noun meaning The call of a cuckoo.
Meaning
The call of a cuckoo.
More Meanings
- (UK) A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used as a base for their activities.
- present participle and gerund of cuckoo
Example Sentences
[…] the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, […]
The specified criminal activity includes the types of criminal activity that cuckooing is typically used to facilitate, for example, drugs offences, sexual offences and offensive weapons offences.
Word Forms
- cuckooings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include goose, jackass, fathead, zany, goof, cockcrowing.
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