dogging
nounUS /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/ · UK /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/
1
The act of one who dogs or harasses.
- […] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, page 598:
2
UK The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
- We do it because we've found / When people crowd around / It is somehow more profound / When you're dogging.2011, Adele Anderson and Dillie Keane, “Dogging”, performed by Fascinating Aida:
- 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 […].2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 21:
3
Australia The job of killing wild dogs and dingos in a rural area.
- ‘Has a good plant. Wanders around on his own doing a bit of dogging (dingo-hunting).’1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77:
- Related terms
- alpha dogging, chute dogging, hog-dogging