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dogging it

dogging it is the present participle and gerund of dog it.

Meaning of dog it

Verb

dog it (third-person singular simple present dogs it, present participle dogging it, simple past and past participle dogged it)

  1. (slang) To underperform; to lag behind; to fail to exert effort.
    • The boss made him do extra cleaning work, because he was caught dogging it on his prior assignment.

Questions about dogging it

What is dogging it the present participle and gerund of?
Dogging it is the present participle and gerund of dog it.

Words near dogging it in the dictionary

  1. doggily
  2. doggin'
  3. dogginess
  4. dogging
  5. dogging around
  6. dogging it
  7. dogging out
  8. doggings
  9. doggirl
  10. doggish
  11. doggishly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogging it (page history and authors); dog it (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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