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🚪 A car door crash 🚪 To hit with door
to dooring

to dooring

8.8
To cause a crash by opening a car door into a bike rider's path
  • verb
  • Jargon
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  • The cyclist was injured after being doored by a passenger who did not look before opening the car.

Examples

  • He doored a cyclist yesterday.

  • He apologized for almost dooring the delivery rider when he got out of his vehicle.

  • Many cities have started campaigns to prevent dooring accidents involving cyclists and parked cars.

  • Why do people keep dooring cyclists?

  • The driver was fined after dooring a cyclist who was riding past his parked car.

  • She narrowly avoided a serious injury when a taxi passenger suddenly doored while she was cycling by.

  • Awareness campaigns aim to educate motorists about the dangers of dooring to keep cyclists safe.

Surface Forms

dooring infinitive
dooring infinitive
doored past
doored past participle
dooring present participle

Morphology

dooring = door (semi-transparent) = door + ing

The form is clearly based on 'door' plus '-ing', but the cycling-accident meaning is a specialized extension rather than a fully literal, predictable combination.

Etymology

Dooring for the verb sense is the same idea: door + -ing to show an action, meaning the act of opening a door 'into' someone on the road. So to be 'doored' or to door someone is to cause a collision by opening a vehicle door into a cyclist.