dogging

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/
• (Canada, cot-caught) IPA: /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/

Noun

dogging (plural doggings)

1. The act of one who dogs or harasses.
   • 1844, George Lillie Craik, ‎Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England (page 598)

     […] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]

2. (UK) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, p. 21:

     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 […].

Verb

1. present participle of dog#English|dog

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