🚗 Outdoor sex activity 🐾 Persistent pursuit

dogging

3 9.9

Sexual activity in public places, often in cars or near roads

noun
/ˈdɒɡɪŋ/

Offensive

: sexo en lugares públicos

So, um, no more dogging then?
dogging tactics

Examples

No more dogging!

Kidnap Me (2017)
Oh, I'm sorry are we going to get blackballed by the dogging society?

Kidnap Me (2017)
They were caught engaging in dogging in the park late at night.
Many people enjoy dogging at secluded spots where they can be discreet.
He often talked about his experiences with dogging with strangers in cars.

Surface Forms

dogging singular

doggings plural

Morphology

dogging = dog (opaque) = dog + ing

Although the form contains 'dog' and '-ing', the British slang meaning is highly specialized and not predictable from the parts for an average learner.

Etymology

The word dogging (British slang) probably comes from the verb dog, meaning 'to follow' or 'to watch', and one popular story says it began in parks where people walked their dogs. A helpful way to remember it is to think of people meeting or watching sexual activity in public places, which is what dogging refers to.