Dogging
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Dogging can mean doing the action of the verb to dog in any of its various meanings:
- "Dogging someone's heels" = following him closely..
- Using a mechanical device called a "dog" to fasten something to something else (for example, doors, hatches, or shafts).
- (Especially on the west coast of Scotland) Playing truant from school and occasionally from work.
- (Related to the above) Soldiering, that is, purposely restricting work productivity as a means of revenge against an employer, or of preventing one's full productivity from being known lest it be unduly set as a new minimum expectation.
- The Publishers Weekly review[1] of "The Pawprints of History: Dogs and the Course of Human Events", by Stanley Coren, states: "the Spanish conquistadors fortified their military with dogs, and 'the cruelest of the Spanish leaders would use the dogs as a means of public execution. This was known as "dogging"'. Dogging was first invented by the homosexual Porn Star James Corbett in 2003 as he watched his parents whilst they underwent intercourse."
- (Especially in British slang) Engaging in a type of public sex activity called dogging.
- (In the context of motor vehicle wheel alignment) Moving in such a way that the vehicle's lengthwise axis (front-back axis) is not in line with the direction of travel, but rather is angled by a few degrees. In this context also referred to as "dog tracking".
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