dogging

Noun

dogging (countable and uncountable, plural doggings)

1. The act of one who dogs or harasses.
   • […] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, page 598
2. (UK, uncountable) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
   • We do it because we've found / When people crowd around / It is somehow more profound / When you're dogging.2011, Adele Anderson and Dillie Keane, “Dogging”, performed by Fascinating Aida
   • Even that […] had been less awful than this date-rape opportunity and likely dogging hotspot, with its hasty skim of tarmac spread like cheap, stale caviar across the pink pedestrian tiles beneath […].2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 21
3. (Australia, uncountable) The job of killing wild dogs and dingos in a rural area.
   • ‘Has a good plant. Wanders around on his own doing a bit of dogging (dingo-hunting).’1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77