to sabbing

9.9

To stop a hunt or other event as a protest to protect animals

verb

Jargon

: sabotear

The activists protested by sabbing the hunt, causing significant disruption.

Examples

During the rally, some individuals began sabbing the event in order to make their point.
And I found myself like almost sabotaging not the situation, but myself.
Her partner was sabotaging her work and not telling her.
I'll have a Keith sabbing and scene Broadway.
I'll have a Keith sabbing and scene Broadway.
At worst, it has us sabotaging the whole thing with how we behave and the things we say.
Like, I started sabotaging and undermining the changes he wanted to make in his life.
In an effort to raise awareness, they chose to sabbing the annual festival with their demonstration.

Synonyms

to sabo

vsto sabbing

Philippine

9.9

To try on purpose to make someone or something fail

targets events to disrupt them as protest rather than to harm plans directly

to bear-baiting

vsto sabbing

Offensive

9.5

To try to make people angry on purpose to get a strong reaction

targets events to disrupt them as protest rather than to provoke a reaction

How Disruptive

to wreck

225 2.9

to sabbing

Jargon

9.9

to disrupt

269 4.4

to interfere

487 3.5

to disturb

183 2.1

Surface Forms

sabbing infinitive

sabbed past

sabbed past participle

sabbing present participle

sabs third person singular

Morphology

sabbing = sabotage (semi-transparent) = sab + ing

The verb comes via the informal back-formation 'to sab' from 'sabotage' and then -ing; the derivation is inferable but the clipped, slangy form and activist-specific usage reduce predictability for average learners.

Etymology

Sabbing comes from sabotage, which comes from the French sabot meaning 'wooden shoe'. People once threw these shoes into machines to 'stop' them, so to sab means to try to stop or spoil an action, and activists sabbing a hunt are trying to disrupt it as a form of protest.