ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dogging

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Dogging is a noun meaning The act of one who dogs or harasses.

Meaning

The act of one who dogs or harasses.

More Meanings

  1. (Australia, uncountable) The job of killing wild dogs and dingos in a rural area.
  2. present participle and gerund of dog
  3. (UK, uncountable) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.

Example Sentences

‘Has a good plant. Wanders around on his own doing a bit of dogging (dingo-hunting).’
[…] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]
We do it because we've found / When people crowd around / It is somehow more profound / When you're dogging.
Even that […] had been less awful than this date-rape opportunity and likely dogging hotspot, with its hasty skim of tarmac spread like cheap, stale caviar across the pink pedestrian tiles beneath […].

Word Forms

Synonyms for dogging

Depending on context, synonyms include continuous, uninterrupted, persisting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include persisting, uninterrupted, continuous, dogdraw, dogcatching, hog-dogging.

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