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cuckooings

cuckooings is the plural of cuckooing.

Meaning of cuckooing

Noun

cuckooing (countable and uncountable, plural cuckooings)

  1. The call of a cuckoo.
    • […] the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, […]1882, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
  2. (UK) A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used as a base for their activities.
    • The specified criminal activity includes the types of criminal activity that cuckooing is typically used to facilitate, for example, drugs offences, sexual offences and offensive weapons offences.2025 February 25, “Crime and Policing Bill: Child criminal exploitation and 'cuckooing' factsheet”, in Home Office, Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom)

Questions about cuckooings

What is cuckooings the plural of?
Cuckooings is the plural of cuckooing.

Words near cuckooings in the dictionary

  1. cuckoobuds
  2. cuckooed
  3. cuckooflower
  4. cuckooflowers
  5. cuckooing
  6. cuckooings
  7. cuckooish
  8. cuckoolike
  9. cuckooness
  10. cuckoopint
  11. cuckoopintle

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