Dogging

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 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"'."
• (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".